Peter Attia
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And if you continue to double down on horrible positions, you will lose the money of your LPs and ultimately you will be broke.
So I think that's sort of why it's a great idea to be thinking about through the lens of how an investor functions.
And so I think we just have to all try to do that.
It's hard.
It's hard to kill your babies.
But that was the expression.
Those were the exact words that were used when I first showed up in the lab.
and first started doing experiments and first started getting my data and trying to put hypotheses together and make sense of what I was seeing.
You can have the most beautiful, beautiful hypothesis ever, and it can be categorically slayed by ugly facts.
And that's paraphrasing a quote.
God, I don't remember who actually said that quote, but it's a sort of famous quote in science.
Listen, I believe I have the potential to beat my young boys in chess, provided I don't get distracted by the smack talk.
In my defense today, by the way, I know you don't play chess, but just so you understand,
I promoted a pawn to a second queen on the 25th move.
Do you understand what an advantage I had in this game today?
I've got two queens on the board and I was ahead on material before that promotion.
This was a bloodbath.
And then he starts yapping so much and makes what looks like an idiotic blunder, exposing his rook to my newest queen.
So of course, I take the free rook.
But I was so dumb when I did it that I didn't notice that he moved his bishop out of the way, what looked like a blunder, so he sacrificed his rook, to put his bishop in a way...