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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I get swept up in how big the win could be and barely glance at what happens if it goes wrong
• Some part of me treats this failure as final
• I always seem to realize a thing is going off the rails only once I’m in way too deep to back out
• There’s a setback I can see coming and what scares me most isn’t the thing itself but being blindsided by it
• This one loss feels like the end of the world when I stare right at it, and I keep checking it obsessively, which only makes it worse

Practices that may help

1. Protect the downside before chasing the upside
   Ask what the worst realistic outcome is and ensure you can survive it before evaluating the upside.
   Margin of Safety
2. Plan how to repair each worst case
   If the worst case happened anyway, write how you’d get back to where you are now.
   Fear-Setting, Made Practical
3. Turn top risks into tripwires
   Set a specific signal that tells you a feared failure is starting to happen.
   The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed
4. Worst-case rehearsal (take the shock out)
   Calmly rehearse a likely setback in advance so it arrives expected, not as an ambush.
   Premeditatio Malorum, in Depth
5. Zoom out from the single loss to the aggregate
   A loss looks catastrophic in isolation and trivial across the whole portfolio of your life.
   Loss Aversion, Made Practical
6. Catastrophizing (magnification and jumping to conclusions)
   Assume the worst possible outcome is likely and that you couldn’t cope if it happened.
   Cognitive Distortions: The Thinking Errors Behind Anxiety and Depression
7. Look for decisions with asymmetric upside — large potential gain, small defined loss
   Seek situations where the worst case is bounded and small while the best case is large and open-ended.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
8. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the decision has already failed — then ask why.
   Thinking in Bets
9. Rate each failure by likelihood and impact
   Turn the raw failure list into a prioritized set of risks to mitigate.
   The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed
10. The premortem (imagine the project already failed)
    Before starting, assume the plan has already failed and ask why — then fix it now.
    Premeditatio Malorum, in Depth

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