Choosing a set of different risks is not choosing larger risks, you can improve something incrementally, choosing small risks, with a conservative stance. This is different from choosing different risks, which implies that they are totally new, unknown, which makes us feel more vulnerable because we need to expand our threshold and our resilience. If we evaluate the new risks in detail, they may seem dangerous but many times it is just a feeling, not a fact.
An unconventional approach should not be dangerous, but different. Accepting another set of risks means we are trapped, hemmed in by habits, assuming we are playing it safe, when we are simply avoiding the unknown.
Many times, we don’t get what we want, because we don’t even try. There seems to be a psychological compensation mechanism for not trying things, which supposedly protects us from the discomfort, the pain, the shame of not achieving our goals. The doubts that betray us, act as overprotective friends, disempower us and warn us to respect our self-established boundaries. We must doubt our limitations and respect our potential, take the risk to believe in ourselves, use our potential and the opportunities that arise.
Losing is not even trying, trying is the only viable option, it’s not about choosing whether to risk, it’s about what risk we will choose, your personal limits are determined primarily by what you are willing to try.
Our risks of omission tend to harm us more than our risks of commission. When we avoid a risk, its ability to deceive us increases.
We need to discover the lighthouse today and find the edge of reality at risk.
Unquestionable self-doubts grow stronger. Let’s challenge them and we will become stronger.
There is no logic in not trying, but what is certain is that if you don’t try you are already failing.
