androidsixteen 🌲
@androidsixteen.eth
Sometimes I think the male psyche (or the masculine polarity, if you will) prefers boom-and-bust over equanimity. I suspect this is because it uses stress as a mechanism to learn its own limits This is why the "it's so over / we're so back" sentiment thrives in the wild west of crypto, which due to selection bias is mostly men
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sardius.eth
@sardius
good insight, I think the secret for men here is to learn how to purposefully cultivate boom and bust energy in specific areas/contexts of their lives, instead of being artificially manipulated into it by external forces
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DV
@degenveteran.eth
We take more risks
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Shant Mesrobian
@shantmm
Alternatively it may be due to the fact that volatility and disruption is required for status attainment, new opportunities, etc.
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christin
@christin
cc @cameron what do u think of this
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six
@six
I do find I learn more about myself and reality from experiencing volatility
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Prob a combo of a lot of things, but a table stakes consideration is that western men are generally fed a steady diet of outlier/high volatility media as “the goal” from childhood, are rewarded with status/credibility for big “failures”, and have lived in rapidly accelerating “achievement defines your baseline worth as a human being and potential romantic partner” arms race with societal expectations for the past 30 years. (as well as being predisposed towards greater risk taking anyway) If your “success case” lives 3x standard deviations away from the median then the only rational economic move is massive risky bets (aka volatility by default)
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