Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Take the Risk

Episode Date: September 27, 2020

In this episode I talk about the pros and cons of risk taking, and how the vast majority of what holds us back in life is reversible. This means that if things don't end up the way we had hoped, we are able to take a step back, readjust and try again, essentially making the downside negligible. The upside, on the other hand, is tremendous and potentially even life-altering, making the risk very often worth the reward.

So life is the sum of the decisions we make. But which decisions? How am I supposed to know? Well, maybe a list will help some pros and some cons list one. Finding the courage to do something new, okay? Cons, it could be a waste of time. Could embarrass myself. Could lose money.

Could get criticized. Pros could be life-changing. Finding the courage to go somewhere new. Okay, cons might not like where I go, might not know how to get there. Might regret going. Pros could end up being the best decision I've ever made. Finding the courage to change myself, okay, cons might not like who I become. Might try, fail, and feel worse than I did to begin with as possible.

Pros, well, I might become exactly who I need to be. So looking at this, it essentially comes down to conserving the old or making the new, maintaining or capturing the upside. But it doesn't quite delineate my problem. Okay, so different angle list two. Finding the courage to do something new. If I fail, is it reversible? Yes, I can fail.

And if I do, I'll simply go back to doing that which I had been doing. All right, finding the courage to go somewhere new. If I don't like the destination, is it reversible? Yes, I can change my flights, grab a train, turn the car around, I decide where I go. Finding the courage to change myself. If I don't like the trajectory, is it reversible? Yes, if I don't like how I'm evolving, I can stop. I can start back at the beginning.

Who you are is in your control, okay? So after two lists, the point. Pros have immense upside and the cons. Well, they have relatively minor downside, and they are reversible. Meaning, if I try something I've always wanted to try, go somewhere, I've always wanted to go, become the person I've always wanted to be, things could fall apart. But the damage is more annoying than it is life-altering. It's not forever, it's fixable. On the other side, if I hit that home run, my life changes.

My world evolves, what's possible expands. And it's not that I will, it's that I could. And doesn't everything start with could? A seed of possibility? An idea that plants roots and when merged with courage in action take shape? Of course. But most importantly, this information in front of me tells me something pretty incredible, a story with few words and infinite meaning.

the key that unlocks some of the most important doors to be opened. And it's this. Most of our inaction, most of our regret, most of our almost come from cowering amidst possible outcomes that are reversible, running from potential consequences that we could wipe clean like a dry eraseboard and try again. downside it pales in comparison to the upside we're running from a slap on the wrist or the momentary anxiety associated with turning down the wrong street right that's the takeaway here that's where the magic lies not in the possibility that everything could work out but the

realization that if it doesn't life moves right along that contrary to the narrative so often making its home in the back of our minds, life has redos. You can screw up, you can reverse track and start again. The only action you can't fix is the one you never take. And while I'm looking at this list and I just don't see any upside in that.