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it is important for people to take risks,both in their professional lives and their personal lives. Do you think the advantages of taking risks outweigh the disadvantages?

#people #risks #lives
As humans’ lives are always under the impact of different factors and everyone does their best struggles to gain an ideal level of
life
, some risky decisions should be taken to change or stunningly improve the quality of living.
This decisions
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This decision
These decisions
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 may be in personal
life
 or in a
person
's career. In my opinion, it varies from one to the other
person
 and the consequences should always be considered. To commence with, some personal matters are a kind of
luck
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lucky
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 event in our
life
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lives
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 and the risk of their happening is unavoidable, like marriage which is often contemplated as a risky issue, you cannot certainly say how your
life
 would be, after
this
 event.
Although
 the decision is yours to try your
luck
 or not through
this
 type of choice.
On the other hand
, investment in professional
life
, like financial subjects
are
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 another obvious example of taking risks. I know someone who placed all his money on bets of soccer matches and earned a large amount of money, but it is a fact that
such
 kinds of risks may result in a big loss of money rather than a promotion.
Therefore
 it would be the wisest decision to deliberate the consequences of
luck based
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 works. To sum up, from all the items that have been told formerly, I can conclude that, taking risks either in an individual or professional
life
 totally depends on the condition of the
person
, and using the
luck
 factor in
life
 would not have the same result for all. So on, for one its advantages may outweigh the disadvantages while the same decision may have an adverse effect on another
person
.
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