To do or not to do

There are many worries like, "What should I do?"
I sometimes receive such consultations myself.

When you break this down and think about it,
- Should I do something?
- Or should I not do it?
It is often a dilemma between these two choices.

In such cases, I would generally give advice from three perspectives.

One is the perspective of "risk hedging."
What risks arise if you do it, and conversely, what risks arise if you don't? By comparing those two risks, if the possibility of a positive outcome outweighs the negative, you can decide that you should try it. Of course, if the negative impact is greater, the decision would be not to do it.

The second is the perspective of "nothing ventured, nothing gained."
You won't know the regrets of having done something until you actually do it. If the risk is not that great, trying it out for now will lead to increasing your own experience.

The third is the perspective of "positioning."
If you have unbendable beliefs or unchangeable procedures within yourself and are making decisions on whether to do something based on them, that is wonderful. By accumulating actions without wavering from those standards, you can establish your own position within a community.

Thinking about it that way, I arrive at the conclusion that you should not decide "not to do it" unless the negative risk is extremely large.

There are likely several negative risks.
Issues of money, time, and future value, for example.

However, you should not add elements like "the opinions of someone you don't really know" or "the immediate hassle" to that. Those are not risks, which are "uncertainty factors," but merely "feelings of anxiety."