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The hero of the story


We’ve been talking about Trump as if he cares about risk and he wants to manage it well. I don’t think that’s true. I think that his whole life is about doing whatever his impulses tell him to do. And then, after the fact, telling a story that renders him the hero of the story.

(Michael Lewis in an interview about his book The Fifth Risk)

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