However, I needed to first see that I was able to make some money doing this, as blindly following your passion without seeing any proof of work is a terrible strategy to pursue.

While one’s potential is not a tangible good, no one would deny the reality of its existence. The reason why babies are so cherished is because of all the bright possibilities that await them; every life path is open, and the world is their oyster.

The Asymmetry Is Everywhere

As long as that chief concern is one you think you can manage, the most rational thing to do is to actually make the jump. By not making that leap, you are voting to give up all unimaginable future rewards for a single concern you can predict and prepare for today.

This was the sole problem I had to figure out, and I felt that as long as the benefits would push me to improve my work and broaden my audience, that would naturally help to solve the fiscal concern in turn.

As a human being grows into adulthood, however, things shift. Whereas an infant goes through the world with curiosity, an adult is expected to move about with justification. Life choices must be made with analysis, and interestingly, even inaction requires this type of reasoning as well.

In the short-term, the expectations you have pre-leap largely carry over post-leap.

Life leaps come in varying distances.

It exists in the person who was scared to publish personal essays in fear of ridicule, but decided to take the leap and do it anyway. He will learn over time that while the fear of rejection may persist, all the benefits he accumulated in the form of new relationships and opportunities were once unthinkable, yet now he has them.