Be honest about the risk to the people it affects. Courage that lies isn’t courage, it’s a con.

Risk you take alone is yours. The moment other people are exposed to it, their money, their time, their safety, hiding the downside turns a bold move into something done to them. Nerve and honesty have to travel together, or what looks like courage is really you making somebody else carry the part you did not want to say out loud.

Before you pull anyone into a plan, tell them the worst case in one plain sentence. Let them decide with the same information you have. If the plan only works while they are missing a detail, that detail is the thing to look at.