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3 Benefits of Taking Risks In Your Life

Are you familiar with the saying “You’ve got to break eggs if you want to make an omelet”? This is a colorful way of reminding you that risk is important in working toward success.

Think about it, if you don’t accept the risk of losing, you won’t have the reward of winning. It’s the risk that gives you the chance to come out on top.

Understanding this helps you see risk taking as positive and beneficial. It’s a behavior that can lead to success in life and in business.

To help you see this GenuLines is going to look at three specific benefits that come from taking risks.

Unexpected Opportunities

You often take a risk to get to a specific benefit. You do X to reach Y. But sometimes that benefit gets pushed aside by other, unexpected benefits.

When you take risks, your actions put you in situations that are not run of the mill or ordinary. Because of this, the reward of being in that situation is also not run of the mill or ordinary.

Taking a risk like this can lead to benefits you could only dream of.

Building Self-Assurance

One of the main benefits of taking risks is that you get better at taking risks. It doesn’t seem logical, but risky behavior leads to even more risky behavior.

Now, when we talk about risky behavior, we’re talking about positive behaviors. No one should ever behave in a way that puts them in personal danger.

That said, taking positive risks allows you to develop the ability to be able to judge the future risk. In other words, you get better at estimating the odds for success the more that you take risks.

Personal Growth

Oscar Wilde once said that experience is the name that we give to our mistakes.

The point here is that mistakes and failure lead to learning and growth. In a strange way, you need to first fail before you can succeed.

This means that if you don’t take risks, you can’t fail. Without risk, you’ll stay where you are.

And that is the ultimate failure.

JohnK 9-8-2025
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”

                                                                  ~T. S. Eliot