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?

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risks
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in
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either
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or
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, people are often divided into two parts. There are ones advocating accepting the
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because of the lessons or achievements they can bring out in the end. Meanwhile, the opposers hold the view of risky things making
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way too stressful and even miserable with the potential loss awaiting ahead of them. From my perspective,
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only live once' saying has been the inspiration for my opinion that we should live
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to the fullest including taking
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and even the failures following them. First of all, if no one ever took
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, we could not have
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achieved
what we do today. Fear is
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of
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all human
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when being placed in front of unpredictable options.
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, we tend to opt for anything we are confident with
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high likelihood of success.
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,
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scientists
could not come up with the
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vaccines and brought it to
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end that
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if they
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the risk that these vaccines might have not worked out. Obviously, before these could be brought to the public for use, the scientists had tested them out and failed so many times. Yet any
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they failed, they learned some things new to come closer to the preferable outcomes. In personal
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, similar
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situations
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happens
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often demanding us to make decisions and some just
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change our lives forever. Given that we decide to go with the flow, of course, we will not lose what we currently have, yet what we will potentially have. Let's take Jack Ma, a hardworking but
used to be
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poor
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community
in China, as an example. If he had been a typical tireless
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communion
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without taking the risk of losing all his savings
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his business Alibaba, he would have not made it one of the most successful businesses in China in their industrial revolution era that has created
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thousand jobs for his Chinese fellows. In conclusion, the most concerned disadvantage people talk about all the
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regarding
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is what if we lose and we cannot afford to lose. It is not always the case certainly, there are chances of winning as well and as soon as we win the outcomes must be fruitful.
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, even when we lose that
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, we can learn from failures that definitely set us up for success in the future.
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, I do believe the advantages of taking
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surpass the
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disadvantages
.
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