Episode 46: Risk and Reward

Everyone makes stupid decisions. Uninformed decisions, hasty decisions, misguided decisions. But the worst example is when someone doesn't make a decision at all.

We all fear something. Rejection. Humiliation. Defeat. But should that be enough to hold us back? When we avoid putting ourselves out there – doing nothing rather than doing something counter-cultural or counter-intuitive – that sense of safety may be more damaging than the risk itself.

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Image: The Voyage of Life: Manhood by Thomas Cole, 1842 (public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

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