It’s easy to convince yourself that if you never take risks, you will always be safe. If you don’t move, if you don’t speak up, if you don’t try, you will never fail.
But that’s simply not true.
Choosing not to explore is choosing ignorance of what would be explored. Choosing not to take a risk is choosing not to open yourself up to greater rewards and new knowledge.
Ignoring the opportunity cost of the options in front of you is a massive silent risk that most ignore. Weigh your opportunities by the amount of potential risk vs the amount of possible reward they would bring. Choose the path that offers the best combination of the lowest risk and the highest reward. Then go full blast after that low-risk high-reward opportunity!
Shake off the shackles of fear and move toward starting that business, side project, relationship, or whatever you’re facing.
We’re all gonna die. These ten quotes will help you live.
1. Get in the Arena
― Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
2. Be Strategic
“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
– Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder
3. Experiment
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Live an adventure
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller
5. Try
“Better To Try And Fail Than Never To Try At All”
– William F. O’Brien
6. Try Again
“It’s better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would’ve happened if I had tried.“
– Alfred Lord Tennyson, English poet
7. Love Someone
“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
8. Gain Daily
“If you dare nothing,
― Neil Gaiman
then when the day is over,
nothing is all you will have gained.”
9. Make Memories
“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen
10. Face Fear Daily
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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