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
the first one could be more painful because you lose some money after believing that you could have find success in engaging in a specific project but the second one could also be more painful because you will be plagued with what if's but at least you would not have lost some money you just simply did not gain anything
what decision would be harder to live with?
I think play safe is good strategy of you are a beginner and you want to learn about market and if you will invest more time then there are more chances you will get profit. But you are playing safe,So profit will be very low but that will not be shocking for you because you lost nothing in that . If you always invest in the market and you did smart research about market then you should invest and take risk because it could make you more richer because you are not Poor and that step could make your wealth double.In both cases, you will learn new things because you could get loss in both case but there are more chances that you will get profit in the second case but it doesn't mean you will always be in the profit because market condition no body know.