The Illusion of Safety: Why You Should Always Choose To Go Big

“Job security” is a myth.

We saw that in 2008 and we’re seeing that right now.

You can spend a long period of time feeling ‘safe’ only to have the rug pulled from underneath you and experience a cascading effect of negative scenarios.

You can go from having a nice stable job, living paycheck to paycheck with debts because you’re stable so why not, and when a situation hits you out of nowhere, you can lose that job, your home, and a third of your 401k just like that.

This idea of the ‘illusion of safety’ doesn’t just apply to jobs, it applies to life. People play it safe and make prudent plans for the future, only to die young.

You’re lulled into complacency.

You think you have time.

You think you’re safe, but you’re not.

Most people live their lives as sitting ducks. Everything is fine until it’s not. Actually, as Nassim Taleb points out, they’re sitting turkeys:

“Consider a turkey that is fed every day, Every single feeding will firm up the bird’s belief that it is the general rule of life to be fed every day by friendly members of…