Most people chase success by asking: “How do I win?” But inversion thinking flips the question: “What would guarantee failure?” You don’t start by dreaming. You start by dismantling. Charlie Munger put it best: “Tell me where I’m going to die, so I don’t go there.” That’s the game. The Stoics called it Premeditatio Malorum. They imagined everything that could go wrong, failure, loss, humiliation. Why? To prepare and avoid it. Elon Musk does the same. When building SpaceX, he didn’t ask “How do I