CHAPTER 8

Embrace Risk

Failure, when it comes to future risk-taking, is a gift. Successful risk-takers are often motivated by failure—it’s what tells them that they aren’t done preparing yet. It’s inspiration to work harder, to train better, and to learn more. They understand that mistakes have the potential to offer them as much, if not more, than success in the way of both data and experience. They don’t take failure as a sign to stop and set their sights on something new.

—KAYT SUKEL, THE ART OF RISK

Every time you make a choice in life, you’re taking a risk, and your life is a series of the choices you have made. Along the way, you may have learned that a nonchoice is also a choice. And depending on the situation, sometimes nonchoices are ...

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