Every strength is also a weakness; every triumph engenders a loss. Risks include:
- overconfidence, blind reliance on one's trump suit ("They'll never attack here; we're too powerful!")
- narrowing of choice --- focusing on the area where one leads, and ignoring other possibilities (putting all the eggs in a single basket.)
- bandwagon-riding (playing follow the leader)
- rear-view-mirror watching (fighting the last war)
- hubris --- excessive pride from an initial victory based on sheer luck ("The worst thing that can happen to a new gambler is an early win.")
Strength leads to underestimation of both risk and the extent of one's ignorance.
- Sunday, December 12, 1999 at 20:57:05 (EST) = Datetag19991212
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