CHOOSING YOUR RISK

There are no guarantees as we head into the unknown. There can’t be.

If you want to create something new, whether that’s a novel or an unconventional life, there is no getting around the risk, and anyone anywhere that sells you something using the word “risk-free” is lying. There is always, always, a risk. Risk of doing. Risk of not doing. The question is not whether or not there is a risk, but what the risks are. A friend of mine has always been risk-averse. Now that I think about it, many of my friends have been. They don’t travel. They don’t quit the jobs that are quietly killing their souls. They don’t step out and follow their dreams of becoming a musician, or novelist, or that guy that sells his house to sail around the ...

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