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Playing It Safe Is Too Often Risky
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Safe choices
Following the status quo does not always make us feel that we are living with purpose.
If you live your life by simply comparing yourself to other people, you will always be subject to ...
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Making space for possibilities
Making space to take on risk is all about the journey. You have to unlearn what no longer serves you. For example, unlearning other peoples quick fixes and schemes.
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Looking forward
Playing it safe prevents you from leaping into the opportunities along your path.
If you wait until you are ready you might not follow the path you want to choose. Trust yourself to do your b...
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Risk awkward conversations
We are apt to choose the path of safety instead of speaking about issues that worry us. We do not address the problems and fail to influence a change or produce results.
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Challenge assumptions
The world is changing fast. Holding on to the ideas of yesterday can prevent you from achieving success tomorrow.
Be willing to step away from the old assumptions into a place of not knowing. This will leave room to acquire new knowledge to move to a place you truly want to go.
Risk rejection
If all you do is conform, that is all you have to offer.
To set yourself apart, be willing to walk your own path and do what you expect of yourself versus what others expect of you.
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“It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Mark Twain
The most useful learning
The most useful learning isn’t usually a strict addition of new knowledge, but first unlearning something false or unhelpful.
Types of Unlearning
- Straightforward refutation of the old idea. This complete refutation is atypical. More likely the new knowledge doesn’t contradict the old one, but it may modify it in some way.
- The new knowledge revises a simpler picture by filling it with more complex details. This is similar to adding new knowledge, although because the older, simpler view of the issue has been overwritten with more detail, there is some unlearning going on.
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Playing it safe: a silent killer
The dangers of playing it safe appear so gradually that they rarely get noticed.
It is like a slow leak in a tire, you only notice it when you are stuck. You don't have an idea of how it h...
Hanging onto old ideas
People try desperately to hang on to antiquated ways of doing business because of a false sense of security. They believe that they can maintain their old ideas indefinitely, even if all evidence shows the contrary.
Question everything
Questioning everything could help you to spot problems and create a culture of understanding and action.
What does this business look like in five years? What are our customers worrying about today? What will concern them tomorrow? Where are we failing to communicate? Are we capitalizing on all our strengths? What opportunities are we missing?