Don't Waste Your 20s Not Taking Big Risks

Nat Eliason · 16 Oct 2025

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Risk-taking becomes exponentially harder as a person gets older.

Their wordsYou don't fully grasp how constrained your time actually is or how exponentially harder risk-taking becomes later.
Our reading
Each year of delay costs a person about ten percent of their prime risk-taking years.

Their wordsEach delayed year costs approximately 10% of life's easiest risk-taking period.

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