Consider Specific Alternatives
Many opportunities that are put in your path are there because they do fit within your skill set (or close enough that you will succeed with effort).
When you say yes more often, you provide yourself with opportunities to succeed at things that fall inside your capabilities but outside your comfort zone.
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