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Risk Versus Experiment

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Risk versus experiment - A change in mindset for self-learners attempting to learn by the method of experimenting. The tweet above about risk and experimenting didn't convey all that I meant to and in less than 140 characters it is hard to put into a single tweet the content and the context at times. Hence an attempt to share this short post on how re-thinking risk as an experiment can help us in self-learning and not abruptly end our learning via experimenting because it is categorized as hard or as risky.  Every experiment may or may not be composed of risks.  I'd like to address via this tweet that some think few tasks as risky and wouldn't even attempt to figure out the solution by themselves. They would rather wait for someone else to conduct this experiment or take this risk on behalf of them to learn from it, which is fair too. But at the same time, if we are relaxed with whatever may be the outcome of the experiment conducted in the...