How to actually do the thing that you keep saying you want to do.
| Last Thursday, I wrote about 10 ideas that I had been pondering. Number one, as seen below, covered why you should take more risks. To quote myself: |
1) You should probably take more risks.
We live in a society that values margin of safety above everything. Because of this, we tend to delay “risky” activities to some point in the future. We tell ourselves that once we have more money or more experience, we will be in a better position to take a risk.
But that’s not how risk works. Responsibilities increase with age, while time decreases. The risky idea that could fail when you’re 25? It won’t ruin you. You have time to make that money back. But when you’re 50 and putting your kids through school, you don’t have that luxury. While it’s uncomfortable to think about this in your 20s, you will get older. And your current opportunities won’t be around forever. Peak uncertainty when you are young is the best time to take that shot, because uncertainty = opportunity.
If you fail? Who cares. You gain new stories and new friends, and you have the rest of your life to make more money. And if it works? You won the game.
The risk of not taking any risks only grows exponentially with age. What are you going to do about it? |
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| Turns out that this resonated with a lot of you, so I wanted to dive deeper into this idea of risks. |
| We romanticize the idea of taking risks, of making changes in our lives. These changes vary from person to person. Maybe it’s quitting a job. Maybe it’s moving to a new city. Maybe it’s ending a relationship. Maybe it’s just deciding not to do what society expects you to do for once. |
| At first, these ideas are exciting. Invigorating. Intoxicating. But the excitement and intoxication always give way to fear and anxiety, and the ideas rarely escape our minds to become realities. |
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