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Phase 2: Restoration — Rebuild the Calm

The Micro-Risk Challenge

What if safety isn’t the absence of risk, but proof you can survive it?

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Shannon | Self-Trust Strategy
Oct 26, 2025
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Fear teaches you that danger lives in every unknown.
Micro-risks teach you that freedom does too.

Our brains overestimate threats and underestimates recovery. Taking small, intentional risks recalibrates loss aversion—a concept from behavioral economics showing we fear losing $20 more than we enjoy gaining $20. Applied psychologically, we avoid small ris…

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