There are consequences to the numbers we use. Yogis will argue it is only possible to think of one thing at a time. Multi-tasking is what the body does. The mind can only hold one idea. Then embody it through repetition.
Our attention might jump around a lot, but it can’t be focused on more than one point. Which is why meditation is often the practice of thinking about your breathing. Breathing is a safe anchor to refocus on.
In stark contrast, if you simplify everything down to a single number for return, and a single number for risk, dividing the one by the other to be your point of focus, you are going to make some poor decisions that ignore long-term consequences.
If you make the underlying assumption that opportunities to recycle your high return decisions into high returning alternatives is going to remain a possibility. If what you are consuming is less than what you are creating, then that is sustainable. Then you can do it forever.
If you aren’t considering the unintended consequences of your choices, and what lies outside the numbers, and outside your plan, then you are going to run out of breath when the air disappears.
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