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The Barbell Strategy: How the Smartest Investors Manage Risk

Nassim Taleb’s barbell strategy flips conventional investing on its head:

• 90% in ultra-safe assets (think index funds, bonds)
• 10% in high-risk, high-reward bets (like crypto, startups, or moonshots)

Why it works:
 ✅ You protect your downside
✅ You stay exposed to asymmetric upside

Most people stay in the middle—“diversified” but average.
 But real outperformance lives at the edges.

The winning formula?
 Be aggressively safe—and selectively bold.

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