Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.
Someone once says "Life is a risk, and it's a risk not to take a risk". I agree with the saying, it seems to be a statement from someone who had both taking a risk at a point and denied taking a risk in another situation. I have come to realize the two outcomes in taking risks have their advantages, the first is from a winning point and the second, from a loss. When one wins after taking a risk, he leads and when he loses, he teaches others what his experience was trailing that path. The question is; does taking risk truly have no loss?. Taking a reasonable risk has no loss and vice versa.
Life is structured to be packed with labor, in every labor, there's a peculiar risk. We decide whether to take a risk daily, learn and grow or avoid the risk, play save, and remain stagnant. Taking Risk is what brings out our potentials, no one plays the save game and grows. We learn what works and what doesn't by taking a step, each step we take has a lesson that comes from it and we're never going to know if we avoid them.
Have you noticed everything in life has a risk? Even the smallest of things like sitting- You grow obese, your bones grow weary, it affects your blood flow and your heart develops an attack. We are careful about everything and yet careful about nothing. Life is a risk, when you accept this fact, it will become clearer that when you win taking a risk, makes you a leader and when you lose, it becomes your guide, there's nothing to lose from risk-taking. Be open to learning daily, it's either you lead or you learn.