Risk and Uncertainty

Only those who sleep make no mistakes.

Curiosity always involves risk. You can’t satisfy your curiosity without accepting some risk. Curiosity didn’t just kill the cat.

The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it.

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

What’s the worst that could happen?

Sometimes you just gotta make the decision and jump.

The more you embrace being uncertain and not knowing, the more comfortable you will feel in knowing what you don’t know.

Many people become so obsessed with being ”right” about their life that they never end up actually living it.

If you can’t handle the risk of embarrassment, rejection, and failure, you need to learn how, and studies suggest that is indeed a learnable skill.

If you don’t feel like an imposter, you’re not working hard enough.

Every crisis represents not only danger but also opportunity. But as long as you deny them, as long as you try to escape from them or wish that things were different, the window of opportunity does not open up.

In this real world of ours, after all, nothing remains the same forever.

“I might not stay here all that long,” my wife said, somewhat reluctant.

“Everyone might go to the moon,” I said.

We all love to take responsibility for success and happiness. Hell, we often fight over who gets to be responsible for success and happiness. But taking responsibility for our problems is far more important, because that's where the real learning comes from. That's where the real-life improvement comes from. To simply blame others is only to hurt yourself.

If life always went according to plan, you might as well plan your death and go die.

Life’s not supposed to be easy. That’s why it feels so fucking good.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.