Life is about risk

Life is about risk:

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Life is about risk.

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How much are you willing to risk for an outcome?

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It’s also about reward.

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How much can you gain from that outcome?

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No reward comes without risk.

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People normally think ‘what’s the worst that can happen?’ and stress about that.

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Instead, think ‘what’s the best that can happen?’

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We default to the negative.

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Why?

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Is it our parents?

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Is it our friends?

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Is it the people around us?

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Or is it also our subconscious?

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One that was built as a child we had no control over.

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Those habits can be hard to break.

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Very hard.

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But you have a choice.

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You have a choice to default to positive.

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It takes time, but can be done.

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It’s also taking chances.

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Remembering what you have to lose.

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In the grand scheme of things, nothing.

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We’re all gonna die one day.

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Could be tomorrow.

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Could be in 60 years.

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We don’t know when.

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We don’t know how.

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But that is a certainty.

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Every single one of us.

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And after a little while, no one will remember us.

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Because all the people who know us will also not be here.

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We only have one life.

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This life.

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Could be shit.

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Could be good.

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The most important thing, is it could be better.

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Figure out how you can make it better.

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What choices can you make to do better?

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Eat healthier.

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Try new things.

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Use the 24 hours we all have to work on yourself.

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Through that, you need to take risks.

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You need to take chances.

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You need to reach out to the world and see what comes back.

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You can only sit on your ass for so long before life passes you by.

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What does that mean?

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Try something new.

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Try something you’ve always wanted to.

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Start that business.

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Write that novel.

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Reach out to that person.

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The worst thing that happens is exactly where you are.

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The best thing is your life could be 100000x better.

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You don’t know.

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But the risk is always worth it.

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The world doesn’t care how many times you’re wrong.

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But it will reward you when you’re right.

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Sometimes that takes years.

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Decades.

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But if you love it and feel like you’re providing value to someone, keep doing it.

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As Neil Gamman said, make good art.

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Whatever your circumstances, make good art.

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And put that art into the world.

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Most people won’t respond.

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But some will.

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Those people could change your life forever.

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Another risk that is always worth taking.

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Sending cold emails.

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Largest asymmetric bet I’ve ever taken.

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Changed my life with no downside.

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Reach out to your role models.

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Reach out to companies.

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Reach out to people you don’t know.

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Ask for their time.

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Most of them won’t respond.

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But some will.

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The ones that want to help you will.

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And your life will change forever.

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Worst thing that happens is exactly where you are.

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Best thing is your life changes forever.

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We need a society to take more risks.

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Calculated ones.

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Could you fail?

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Absolutely.

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You will.

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But in the attempt, you’ll have learned so much more than if you sat there and did nothing.

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And if you stick to it for long enough, you’ll succeed.

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Guarantee it.

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More than you could ever imagine.

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For that to happen, you have to take risk.

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The risks you take for the rewards you make.

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Life is about risk.