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you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 772. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of new mindset who this. As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, a case for all of us to make more big, audacious

decisions in life, to take more big swings, a case to ask for more big unreasonable things. And I'll

start with a reason to back up my claim

that life meets you at your level of audacity. The more audacity you have in life, the more

you'll be rewarded. And to start to back that up, here's some research on really what is a

fundamental truth about how humans evaluate each other and how we evaluate

ourselves across all domains of life. And so the research comes from Susan Fisk and John

Overton and a 2020 piece of research which really asked a very simple question, which was

how do we judge people who take risks

compared to people who don't, who play it safe? And the answer here really, I think,

challenges our intuitive response about caution, failure, bold risk-taking. And certainly the study

here focused on like workplace working scenarios,

but the implications here extend to every choice we can make in life. And I'll talk about that.

But in the study, the researchers basically had 800 participants and they presented them with

these very specifically designed scenarios. In each one, employees faced an identical opportunity,

offer a suggestion at a meeting, innovate some workplace thing, or lead a new initiative.

One employee would be the risk taker and always said, yes, let's do it. The other was the risk

avoider always declined and

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