Chapter Seventeen. Don’t wear a parachute[1]
Key piece of advice. Don’t do anything to upset the apple cart. Don’t do anything different or new. Do zilch. Take no action. Zero. All failures know the easiest thing to do is to do nothing. However, if you do slip up, in terms of taking action, make sure that instead of small steps, you take gigantic leaps with the maximum chance of hurting yourself. Ignore the advice of William James who said: “What should be preached is courage weighted with responsibility.” Instead, be reckless and self-destructive, and never mind the consequences. Never do any kind of risk analysis before you try anything ...
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