Every risk you take on purpose helps you handle the ones that come by accident.

Nerve behaves like something trained rather than something issued. Every risk you choose, however small, teaches your body that a racing heart is survivable and that you can still act while it is happening. The risks that arrive without warning do not wait for you to feel ready, and what you have on hand then is only whatever you have practised. Chosen risks are rehearsal for the unchosen ones.

Take one deliberate small risk a week with no real downside. A question, an ask, a first attempt. The repetition is the point, not the result.