Six Figures of Student Loan Debt - Is That Risky?

"I knew that businesses fail. I visualized, I wouldn't be able to create a lifestyle for myself," he says. "If it requires me to sell this, if it's all on me, then if it doesn't work, it's also all on me." He adds: "What if I gave myself 168k to build a business or to experiment ruthlessly with finding something?" If you can just get excited about the idea of failing forward and realize that it's not object failure, de-risk your riskier options.