Some of the best risks are boring: taking the hard class, applying to the extra job, asking one more question.

Danger sounds like cliff edges, which makes it easy to skip the unglamorous kind entirely. The dull ones are where most of the change actually happens, because they put you somewhere slightly harder than where you are now and they can be repeated weekly. A hard class risks your average. One extra application risks a no. Neither makes a story and both move your life.

Choose one boring risk and do it today if you can. Send the application, sign up for the harder section, ask the question you were going to look up later.