The Power of Small Risks

"I love sports metaphors. Because athletic endeavors allow us to see abstract concepts like grit or risk taking, played out in an extremely tangible physical way," he says. "We're all taking small risks and making small gains like this in work and in life every single day." But we tend to sort of gloss right over them as we hurry along,. We don't take stock of the skills we've gained, little by little.