For everyone: Learn to apply investing wisdom to life's
biggest decisions.
For investors: Deepen your edge with fresh insight into value
investing and how its principles shape a well-lived life.
LONDON, June 3, 2025
/PRNewswire/ -- What if you approached life the way a world-class
value investor approaches the market: carefully weighing
risk, maximising upside, and building resilience against the
unexpected?
Solving Life: Mastering Decision Making with Investment
Wisdom by Pavlin Kumchev offers a bold framework for
navigating life's biggest choices by treating them like a portfolio
of high-upside, low-downside bets.
Originally conceived as deeply personal advice to his sons, this
book evolved into something broader: a legacy of decision-making
wisdom anyone can apply. Blending insights from value investing and
behavioural science through the lens of lived experience,
Solving Life introduces a mindset the author calls the Cheap
Options strategy—a structured way to position yourself for upside
potential while limiting downside risk. It's a philosophy of
thinking clearly under uncertainty: not avoiding risk, but
harnessing it.
"The best decisions have limited downside and the potential for
outsized gains. This is the essence of the Cheap Options strategy,"
says Kumchev. "Make choices that protect against major losses while
keeping you open to life-changing opportunities."
Kumchev, a Managing Director at Brigade Capital (a global
multi-strategy investment manager), brings 20 years of experience
at leading financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley,
Blackstone, and Carlyle. His global life journey—spanning
continents, markets, and ideologies—informs the book's rare
combination of diverse perspectives, analytical clarity, and
personal depth.
He urges readers to "live backwards," a method inspired by how
great investors define their expected returns and work backwards to
a decision. In Solving Life, this becomes a way of
intentionally shaping one's path by thinking from the future back
to the present.
Solving Life is not about shortcuts or trendy life
advice. It's about building deep, durable motivation by
understanding risk, clarifying your values, and making decisions
that align with your long-term goals. It's a call to live
deliberately and courageously, with resilience as your compass.
As Kumchev puts it:
"The smartest life strategy? Limit your downside, chase your
dreams, and never stop collecting cheap options."
Availability
Solving Life: Mastering Decision
Making with Investment Wisdom is now available at
www.solvinglifebook.com, Amazon, and select bookstores.
Contact Information
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Website: www.solvinglifebook.com
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