Everybody has to take risks

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1 Everybody has to take risks The only strategy to fail is not taking risks, this is one of the most famous quotes from Mark Zuckerberg and demonstrates that it is simply not possible or at least a good idea to lead a completely risk-free life. I personally think myself we have to live by the saying no venture, no gain or else we will never realize our full potential. We need to take on risk for our personal development and to expand our knowledge. Especially when you are younger you have to try out things and take chances which, to be honest, will not always lead to good outcomes but help you gain experience. For example, take learning to swim: In order to learn how to swim, we must plunge into the water first. Although it is possible to elaborate all aspects of swimming and theorize about it we will never get to the actual process of swimming this way. But we have to define and evaluate risks. What is risk and is it a good idea to take it? I write about risk in the sense of calculated risk, in which you can approximately estimate the consequences and or yield. For example, switching to a better school but losing friends, asking someone on a date or playing pranks on a teacher. It is important to test out how far you can go but it is even more important to evaluate risk sensibly. So, I think it is not a good idea to try train surfing or roofing which only give you an adrenaline rush but rather to overcome fears and to take new chances. If we want to learn something, we have to take risks. If we want something we have to take risks. Humanity would not have been to the moon if nobody had dared to venture out. There would not be so many things if everybody always played safe. And we also would not have friends if we had not taken the risks of reaching out and maybe have got rejected in return. Many who have taken risks failed spectacularly in their ventures. People fell from the sky when they tried to build a machine that can fly and people have died in the test phase of new drugs. But humanity did not stop taking risks because they are the only by which we can advance.