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# Trade-offs
- URL: https://www.howardgray.net/trade-offs/
- Published: 2019-01-29T14:23:56.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-25T21:09:36.000Z
- Author: Howard Gray
- Tags: The Tension, Mindsets & Growth

A lot of life seems to be about trade-offs.

Experimentation / Focus

Enough / Perfect

Altruism / Business

Creativity / Critique

Smart / Casual

Risk / Safety

Self / Others

This / That

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These things aren’t always at odds.

Some are opposites, but a lot are just adjacent.

Balancing and maintaining both is possible, if you really want to find a way to do so.

It’s just hard.

The funny thing is that sitting in the middle ground between the two is often not the way to go. 

That’s the trap.