I’ve got a question for you.⁠ ⁠ Would you bet on you?⁠ ⁠ Not your ideas.⁠ Not your skills.⁠ Just… you.⁠ ⁠ Back in 2001, Warren Buffett asked a bunch of students a simple question:⁠ ⁠ If you could invest in a friend and take 10% of their income for life, who would you choose?⁠ ⁠ Then he flipped it.⁠ ⁠ If you could short (bet against) a friend’s earnings, who would you choose?⁠ ⁠ I don’t think this was about money.⁠ It felt more like a subtle personality test.⁠ ⁠ Because what are you really betting on? ⁠ • Consistency⁠ • Judgment⁠ • Follow-through⁠ • How they handle pressure⁠ • Whether they do what they say they will⁠ ⁠ In other words, their reputation and their character.⁠ ⁠ The exercise reframes reputation not as image or perception, but as a pattern of behaviour that either reduces risk or quietly increases it over time.⁠ ⁠ And it forces us to confront which behaviours we already believe lead to a better life… and whether our own actions line up with that belief.⁠ ⁠ I unpack this prop...