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Only stake what you can afford to lose. Unfortunately this is somewhat dependent on your socioeconomic background.

Don’t YOLO your life savings on a business unless you have a fallback. Take Microsoft: if that company had flopped, Bill Gates had a prestigious and lucrative academic career to fall back on.

Not having the anxiety of failure==material insecurity will free up cycles to develop your endeavour.



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