Faith in Uncertainty

Doubts

prevent us from succeeding before we even try. 

We ask ourselves: It is worth it? Will we succeed? Should I continue to do it? 

Most of the time, we simply dismiss opportunities as "too hard and not worth the effort."

It is true. Often times, opportunities are not as easy as they seem. Recently, cryptocurrency prices skyrocketed. It seems easy to make a fortune from cryptocurrencies, but there is always the doubt. Will the currency suddenly crash? Will you actually invest your hard earned life savings in cryptocurrency? 

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The Uncertainty Barrier

Barriers are concepts or actions that are hard to breach. The chance of winning the lottery is so insignificant that it might as well be zero, but people still buy the lottery because the initiation cost is low. You only need a few dollars to play the lottery to get a "chance" to win it all. 

Cryptocurrencies are another matter. Even if you invest a few dollars and you get 20 times your original money, it is still nothing compared to the "millions" from a single lottery. To get a million dollars form a 20 times increase, you need to invest 50,000: that is the uncertainty barrier. 

The barrier is daunting. 

The barrier is by no means restricted to cryptocurrency. It also applied to time and work. Winning a competition takes practice; but will the effort spent practicing be justified if you don't win the intended competition? 

Justification

If you are doing something only for the end result. You probably should not break The Uncertainty Barrier. However, if you love what you do, or can justify doing it without the end benefits, then The Uncertainty Barrier does not exist in the first place.

If you are somewhere in the middle? Use your best judgment. It is a risk.


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