Gemma Spake

To be honest, when I look at all these things lined up, I'm surprised anybody ever takes a risk ever.

Like if that's what we're battling against, like existential fears, a hardwired fear of the unknown, like neurological patterns that don't want to break.

And it's pretty courageous that people ever do anything.

But the thing is, and this is the point I think we all realize eventually, we don't only lose things when we change.

We also lose things when we stay the same.

Staying the same also has a cost.

When you don't apply for the role you're really drawn to, someone else gets it.

Someone else gets the mentoring and the skills and the money.

Someone else who may have less skills than you gets that opportunity just because they have the bravado.

When you don't move to the new city that you're daydreaming about, there's a person in that new city who would have been your best friend.

You never get to meet them.

That relationship never happens.

There's memories that are never made.

Fond memories, memories that you would have had till the day you die.

You weren't there to make them.

You know, when you don't leave, the relationship you know is wrong for you.

You're also blocking the space for a more compatible partner or maybe just simply a more peaceful relationship with yourself.

This, all these examples are what is known as opportunity cost.

It's a term from economics that's actually super applicable here.

You guys know, I never miss a moment to tell you guys, I actually also have an economics degree.