What if I fall? The man asks. Looking nervously over the edge.

Oh, but my friend, a voice responds back. What if you fly? A little quote heard not too long ago,

demonstrating our proclivity to maintain, to preserve, to protect, to move away altogether from the risk for fear that we might lose our grip on the status quo.

Completely forgetting to think about what life could become if things worked out.

Forgetting that life is a game of trade-offs.

And to fixate on never losing what you have means forfeiting the possibility.

It is that simple. To stay is a refusal to go.

We need to constantly reinforce the idea, the truth, that what we aren't doing is a decision. And while we place our energy and efforts on

minimizing the falling and the failure, someone else is stepping into it. They're capitalizing

on it. Falling again and again and again until they can fly.

Because the danger is not in falling, it's in never taking to the sky.

It's becoming only a fraction of the person you are capable of becoming

with the required sacrifice and courage.

It's an understanding that we're not wrong for initially thinking small,

playing to not lose, thinking only to protect, protect, protect.

That's how human beings arrive out of the factory, right?

Stock.

And you can thank millennia of evolution for that.

You're not weak for being scared.

You're not less than for shaking when you stand face to face with the adversity of life.

Again, this is what being human is.

But what we also possess is the ability to understand these default limitations and transform

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