Elon Musk argues that the best time to take risks is early, before kids and obligations make it harder. People stay stuck in bad jobs or finances because they fear change, but the real risk is doing nothing and regretting it later.
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Now is the time to take risk. You don't have kids. As you, as you get older, your obligations increase, and once you have a family, you start taking risks not just for yourself but for your family as well. It gets much harder to do things that might not work out. So now is the time to do that before you, before you have those obligations. So I would encourage you to take risks now. Do something bold. You won't regret it.
I wish I listened to that sooner. I didn't take a lot of risk in that sense when I was younger, for sure. But I see a lot of people hesitate to get into, to something new. They aren't happy in life, whether financially, or with where they're at, or their job, or their boss, or their company, or whatever it is. But they are afraid to make a move. And it's like, what if the risk is not making the move, you know?