For me, without hesitation, it is better to live a life in which risks are taken. The reasons are as follows :
I am the one who subscribe to the saying "no venture, no gain," Only when we take risks, do we realize our full potential.
Take learning to swim, for example. In order to learn to swim we must plunge into the water first. Initially, we might swallow a bit of water and become disoriented, but gradually our natural ability will take over and we feel at home in the water. If instead of taking the risk of plunging into the water, we elaborately study about all aspects of swimming, theorizing about it and then carefully testing things out, we would probably never get to the actual process of swimming. Even if we do learn to swim in this way, the ability obtained thus can never match a person
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