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How to Not Worry About Your Risks

Name: How to Not Worry About Your Risks
Uploaded: 2024-07-03T22:30:56+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Will Humphreys
Description: Will Humphreys advises that people often over-focus on the risks of failing and under-consider the greater risk of never trying. He argues humans are…

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Will Humphreys advises that people often over-focus on the risks of failing and under-consider the greater risk of never trying. He argues humans are wired for self-protection, which leads to imagining worst-case scenarios that halt action, whereas successful people accept uncertainty and prioritize taking action to avoid the larger loss of inaction.

Most people get stuck because they spend too much time worrying about what the risks are if they fail. And they don't take time to consider the greater risk and fear, which is what happens if they don't try. Most human beings, we're wired to protect ourselves, so the second something new comes up, like an idea, you imagine a worst case scenario and then we stop it altogether. Whereas successful people recognize that even though they don't know what's coming and they might have failure, the bigger risk and loss comes from not trying at all.