I’m a worry wart. I worry about everything and anything. I justify the worries by saying that there are risks and they need to be calculated in order to be mitigated.
Our world is quite confusing, I find.
When I was working, our in-house training taught us to focus on finding risks and mitigating them, especially during the financial crisis. We had all these financial models and we spent the most time analyzing the “what-if” scenarios and worst-case scenarios in order to find ways to protect our own interests even before the scenarios have happened. In law school, we had to pre-empt all the arguments the other side might make – “what if” the defense said this, then how should we rebut?
