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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.
Risk the difficult conversations and speak up.
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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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Risk imperfect decisions
As we start to reach success, we become more cautious and less willing to take risks.
Sticking with the status quo is a decision. Waiting until you have all the information will cripple you. Sometimes you have to trust your instinct and move into uncertainty.
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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.
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"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark
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Problems without solutions
Some known problems cannot be addressed by humans on Earth, and include:
- The eventual exhaustion of hydrogen in the Sun and the star's transformation.
- A sudden appearance of a black hole that could consume our planet.
- A burst of gamma rays from a close supernova tha...
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