Money
Intelligence and Insight
Location and Luck
Education and Expertise
Status
Money is the capital you have, or that you can easily raise.
Intelligence and Insight includes ‘book smarts’, social and emotional intelligence, as well as creativity.
Location and Luck is all about being in the right place at the right time.
Education and Expertise is both your formal schooling and also your self-learning, which gives you intellectual and technical know-how.
Status is your social status, including your network and connections. It’s your ‘personal brand’ ‒ in other words, how you’re perceived. It also includes your inner status, which is your confidence and self-esteem.”
– Pope
Dangers of a Hedged Life
This is the nature of being, to hedge, to protect, to play safe. Or to think we are playing safe by not playing at all.
Yet in my experience, real opportunities lie in walking away from the sources of your darkness, from what is not working.