humans make mistakes and it is almost impossible to completely eliminate them from life but for you what would be more painful
1. you take a risk but it ends in a loss or;
2. you play safe but after time you see that you could have made profit if you took that leap
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what decision would be harder to live with?
I think the no[2] will be a very tough decision to live with, and here is my reason.
The problem we have these days is that most people don't want to learn. They believe they can just wait for others to try out something, or probably ask people about how good something is, before contemplating if to try it out or not. Experience they say is the best teacher.
In as much as playing safe is good to some extent, it still doesn't teach much. If someone takes a risk and ends up losing, the urge to find new strategies to trying out other things makes the person brave. Playing safe won't expose someone to the positive part of risk taking, because risk taking comes with both a positive and negative side. And the positive part can alot better than what the risk taker ever imagined.