Trade-offs—100 Mental Models #097 👽

Why sacrifice matters…

Tom Chanter
1 min readAug 29, 2019
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Trade-offs: A situation where you lose something in order to gain something else.

Example:

If you buy $1,000,000 worth of stock in Google, you gain a high expected rate of return, but lose the safety of having your money in bonds or the bank.

Wisdom:

“I think it’s a false trade-off to say quality time versus quantity — you have to have both.” — Hillary Clinton

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