Taking risks is the path to growth.

Applying for the job you're clearly under-qualified for costs an hour and a small amount of pride. That's the shape of most worthwhile risks: bounded downside, unknown upside.

Growth follows risk because risk is the only dependable way to get information you don't already have. Safety confirms what you knew on Monday.

The two kinds are worth separating, though. A risk that could end you is a different animal from one that could only embarrass you. Take the embarrassing sort often and the other sort rarely, with your eyes open.