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What does it mean?
Living fully requires both effort and the courage to take risks.
In plain terms
To truly live, you must work hard and take risks.
What can you take from it?
Embrace effort and risk as essential parts of living fully.

Where it applies

  • career moves
  • personal growth
  • life decisions

Putting it to work

  • take calculated risks
  • commit to effort
  • seek challenge

Questions to consider

  • What risk are you avoiding?
  • How do you define living well?

Another view

Some lives are lived fully through quiet contentment rather than risk.

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