Topic: which choice is more painful.... (Read 281 times)

I think play safe is good strategy of you are a beginner and you want to learn about market and if you will invest more time then there are more chances you will get profit. But you are playing safe,So profit will be very low but that will not be shocking for you because you lost nothing in that . If you always invest in the market and you did smart research about market then you should invest and take risk because it could make you more richer because you are not Poor and that step could make your wealth double.In both cases, you will learn new things because you could get loss in both case but there are more chances that you will get profit in the second case but it doesn't mean you will always be in the profit because market condition no body know.

Every person indeed has their own take when it comes to taking risks. Now, it is on you if you can gauge the repercussions that may possibly happen on your decisions.

Well that's in your own view, but for me I think the 2nd decision is more painful than the first one. in my own opinion I think Is better for me to take the risk than to play safe and still regret at last, you know for you to be successful in life you need to take risk if you keep playing safe all the time there's no way you're going to achieve anything in life. you know risk always come with hope let's say you take a risk to invest in memecoin at this point there's two things involve is either you get profited or you lose, but when you decided not to invest all in the name of playing safe definitely you don't have any hope I think this is just the significant difference between the both decision.

The least painful is taking a risk which you know that the chances of failure is almost 99%, and still failed. I can live with this.

In the second one, it is playing it safe. But the profit is small and there will hardly be any lesson learnt here. Failure is a bigger teacher than wins. Great inventions and businesses have been borne out of losses. Many innovations and great products have been borne out of losses. But your risk must be calculated. They must not be one made on impulse. Risks that are not calculated are just nothing of effect.

You should shoot for the moon and if you don't hit it, you will land among the stars, so says a great proverb.

The two.
The two decisions won't be an easy pill to swallow.
Trust me none hurts more than the other I've literally experienced this some time ago.
And trust me it's feeling I never want to feel again.

I think the no[2] will be a very tough decision to live with, and here is my reason.
The problem we have these days is that most people don't want to learn. They believe they can just wait for others to try out something, or probably ask people about how good something is, before contemplating if to try it out or not. Experience they say is the best teacher.

In as much as playing safe is good to some extent, it still doesn't teach much. If someone takes a risk and ends up losing, the urge to find new strategies to trying out other things makes the person brave. Playing safe won't expose someone to the positive part of risk taking, because risk taking comes with both a positive and negative side. And the positive part can alot better than what the risk taker ever imagined.

When I take a risk and it end in loss, I wouldn't be pain but maybe a little bit disappointed that after everything I went through, it never work for me and I will move on quickly since I invested in what I could afford to lose, it's only when I use my entire savings or money to risk and loss that I will be sober about but as long as it's what I can afford to lose, I'm very good to go and will be fine after.

The second one will be painful because it's coming from my negligence and greed. You see one thing about profit? You can never go wrong in taking profits, you will never lose your profit and capital doing such. If I fail to lock in my profit, that means I was over joy by my own greed. I will not be happy about it if that happen to me but I know myself very much, I wouldn't be that daft to Let go of my profits, never done that before in my entire life.

Even though we have left our comfort zone full of risks and then contrary to what has been planned, we can gain experience, and get lessons that can change us to be stronger and better in the future. Actually, nothing is in vain every time we make a decision, it's just how we respond to the decision.

But from my point of view. What if we don't need to get out of the comfort zone that we have had so far, we just find or create a new comfort zone so that the comfort zone that we have is more varied, not stagnant in one zone. Because after all, everyone lives, in the end what they are looking for is comfort. So the sentence is not "get out of the comfort zone", but "find as many new comfort zones as possible without having to get out of the comfort zone that we have had so far", so that our lives continue to develop and not stagnate in one comfort zone. Maybe the meaning is the same, this is just a delivery with a different perspective.

You lose 100% of the opportunities you don't try that's because of fear. This new year we are doing it afraid, we are doing it unsure but we are doing it regardless

Number one is painful but it depends on your kind of personality when they said take risk, make investment no one said it was going to work at the first try no one said it was going to be easy no one said it was going to bring 10x the profit.

 It's either your risk works out well for you or you learn in the process. Don't call it failing and that is why they said try your best not to make use of your emergency funds for your investment because it might not turn out well. And if that's the only money you have to make that investment at that point then don't let the pain and the guilt hold you down from trying the next opportunity.

Because you are going to miss 100% on that opportunity you don't try you are going to miss in the learning process and if anything comes out of it you are going to miss it and that's more painful missing an opportunity you could have won because of fear of failing so don't let fear hold you back.

This is one of the things that I have considered when I've taken risk not only in investing but also in other decisions I've made in my life. Mistakes and losses can be recovered if I am eager to do it and I can reason to myself that 'at least I've tried' than regretting that I never did.

This is applicable more for the younger generation or at age. You've got ample time to recover if ever things didn't go well with your decisions but those that are in the veteran's age, there is no room for mistake anymore or if there is, only a little.

Both are painful when you're not prepared and not used to taking risk. Playing safe is fine but you've got to take some risk still even with that, you only minimize and mitigate the risk you take.

I believe the harder outcome to live with will depend on each one's personality. Those who are more aversive to risks will prefer to live with the fact their investments weren't very profitable, but at same time, they also didn't face losses. On the other hand, greedy people who don't get satisfied with small achievements, will prefer to risk everything for a huge reward, even though they don't accomplish this conquest in the end.

Also, traits like resilience are also worthy to be mentioned in this case. More resilient people won't face a loss as the end of the world, as they can always start from zero once again, while a more methodical individual won't bear the possibility of losing money, as it will be heavily disturbing over his mood.

Most humans have made mistakes but how these mistakes become a lesson to correct previous mistakes and that's how humans who have the mind to think more progressively should be.

Without careful planning, taking risks will make us lose a lot of money so that in deciding to take risks it must also be based on careful consideration based on the skills we have and maybe on the way we can improve those skills to be better.

It's an illusion because when playing it safe and we say we can profit if we dare to take risks, it may only be an assumption. The question is why can we be sure to get profit if we never try it and after it happens we assume it will end in profit but we don't live it, maybe we see something without involving the initial process in starting.

It is important to take risks but it must be based on good knowledge so that when we make a profit in carrying out the process that we go through, it is not based on luck, but rather because of the preparation and strategy that we apply.

I agree with this, which of course is more prepared to face a smaller risk to choose it than to result in a greater risk that is very burdensome, of course by looking at the abilities that we have, the underlying answer is much better, by playing it safe which of course will indirectly help improve abilities gradually.

I can see this kind of context is now popular in different constructions and sections of the forum. I can only believe that people are trying to do things differently in 2025, which is good, but for me, judging by my rich experience in trading, investment and other risky activities, it is better you do not regret missed opportunities than to risk and lose your hard-earned money (that's no. 2).

If you are positive in the field, you have nothing to choose other than to continue to do it, but the first option is not about profit but about losing, so why waste money?

In other words, the first choice is Negative while the second choice is Neutral, why not choose Neutral and keep your money?

i just mean in general whether it’s in a business or an investment

i am talking about a project that is well researched and studied but as we know even if we study a project down to the wire and plan carefully it still doesn’t guarantee that we will get a profit in that project so let’s say even after a thorough research and you take the risk but it ends in a loss will it be harder than not doing it at all that’s my question

I choose the number two because I can not face if the risk becomes big. Rather than I take a risk that can ends in a loss and turn becomes big risk, I feels better to play safe. But I know that some people willing to take the risk even if they know that risk can becomes big.

So that will depend on them how they can manage the risk. But most people will difficult to manage the risk and gets in a big trouble. But if we can do something that have less risk, that will be good for us because we can learn for something behind that.

Satisfaction is indeed something that wont really be able to fit out on a certain human being on which we know that there's no such thing about satisfaction and we will really be that liking to have that having even more or the peak profits or winnings that we could possibly have and this what makes us that pushes up to play outside our limits and this is something that must really be avoided in the first place. Simply move on and go forward and trying out to lessen up the risks on which the moment that you had experienced those mistakes and errors or simply missing out some opportunity then just simply move on and make yourself adjust accordingly. Pain is normal because we are dealing on something which is really that risky and we cant be winners or profitable all the  time on which its normal that we will really be that having those kind of aims but not all the time it will be that positive. This is where you must that making out adjustments accordingly so that you can move forward, because at the time that you do keep on minding on about on what you had missed or on what you have lost then you will be that basically that having no improvement or you cant think off well because you will really be that keeping on minding into the things that happened in the past. Simply move on and you wont be finding any issues because with those mistakes then you do eventually learn.

Always the decision that makes you lose in the end is more painful. It’s just a matter of self satisfaction to determine what’s most painful on this scenario. This is same to those guy that sell their holdings in good profit but the asset price they sold is just keep increasing after they sell that’s why they keep thinking about what if which is dumb thing to do.

So in this scenario, the 2nd option is just dealing with personal shit which is not really painful in reality while the first option is a straight up loss.

it is a choice to achieve the success we want, even though when starting it feels heavy with a long process it is a step that needs to be taken, there is no easy effort, all contain risks that will be faced, taking shortcuts does not necessarily achieve what we want and can worsen the situation in the future, starting a business from scratch must have its own challenges.

Every individual will have a different mindset, for me, I would say I would feel more bad for the first one because I won't get anything at all. If I play safe and at least get some profit, I would think that I have at least earned something and didn't waste both my time and my money for nothing. I know that generally, even the second option is also painful because you can't get the thought out of your mind that if you had taken the risk, you could make more from it, but if you at least made some profit, this can give you some relief.

These things usually happen in gambling or trading. When you buy an asset, it goes up a little bit, and you think that you might lose the profit that you have already gained in case it goes down again, so you go ahead and sell, but then you see that it goes up higher and then you regret your decision. However, I think it is still better than nothing. I would feel worse if I don't sell, and then it actually goes down, and I also lose my capital or a portion of it.

So, I think the first one will be more painful.