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Risk!
By
Adam Rifkin
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Your task is to find the risks worth taking. No risk is worth taking.
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My 22 Favorite Slides from Reid Hoffman's "The 3 Secrets of Highly Successful Graduates" Slide Deck
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For part of your life, you worry about your future. Eventually you stop doing this and you spend time regretting your past.
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Every time I fail at something, the press loves to write about it, but you shouldn’t let that scare you. ~Vinod Khosla
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Risk Averse = Reward Averse
Take your risks now. As you grow older you become more fearful and less flexible. ~Amy Poehler
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ~T.S. Eliot
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Eliminate all the gatekeepers! ~Jeff Bezos
Risk-taking isn't the enemy of a properly functioning economy.
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Malcolm Gladwell on entrepreneurship (from 2010)
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Take chances, take a lot of them.
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"We welcome risk when we're young, we avoid risk when we're older." ~@jack