The trap of low leverage
One should be doing their own thing, instead, and consequently, the yield of those results will be conducive to attention.
If one is to do things, it must give off the sense that they do, in fact, have high leverage — as someone who seems desperate in any sense will thus be self-fulfilled and become desperate as the results will not follow from the actions of such an outward appearance.
One must conclude that they have to do the following:
One must have personal convictions by which they stand, they show they personally believe in.
One must increase their surface area of interactions. The value and importance to oneself of each individual interaction will diminish to a balanced extent where it does not psychologically affect the proprietor if it does not yield the expected, ideal, results, but also not dilute to the extent where it loses all personal value and the willingness to chase and act on the lead vanishes.
One must constantly, be, and feeling the effects of increasing their personal (and by extension interpersonal) leverage.
There exists a psychological barrier to increasing one’s own leverage. To reject an opportunity when it is the only one present is generally considered unwise; to the person with no leverage this is the only chance they have — the only thing they have going for them. They act desperate. The effect of that is almost guaranteed to be the failure of that opportunity. Thus the system remains constant. Leverage remains zero.
Broadly, there are three types of wealth of which most attributes people desire could fit in to:
Human capital: skills, cognition, health, creativity, and executional competence.
Social capital: reputation, alliances, network topology, narrative presence.
Financial capital: resources that enable autonomy, risk-taking, and scale.
The default, neutral state of one’s existence should involve improving all three of aspects as they are multiplicative.
These factors enable leverage on one’s interactions with others: In interactions, you will have the knowledge that you are constantly improving, if you fail now at all, it doesn’t matter. You are at the lowest point of the exponential.
For example, the variance between the leverage these sections for me is great. So while the sections reinforce each other, too much variance can also result in your overall leverage being negatively compounded if one aspect is too low.
The idea of compounding returns must be what drives you.
There is a fine line between esotericism and contrarianism.