"The Cautious Seldom Err" - Confucius

To err is human, to forgive is Divine. I just continued the second phrase because "to err is human" is always followed with "to forgive is Divine". 

Caution should always be practiced so that we can minimize errors. But to what extent should you use caution in your life? The practice of being cautious is important to avoid damage, accidents, and other incidents that can harm your life, or others' lives especially in accidents. However, caution should be practiced in a case by case basis...depending on the situation.

In business, caution is important to minimize losses. But there is also another saying that "a fear of risk shall never win", and you cannot learn without making first a mistake or mistakes. For you to succeed, you have to go through a lot of trial and error. True that it is costly, but the knowledge and expertise that you achieved while learning from your mistakes is more than worth the money that you lost.

I remember (again) my late brother, whom I have known to be very cautious and very slow to make decisions. He used to tell me that he lost a lot of opportunities because of his fear to lost everything in case it fails. He is "extra cautious" in his life. Because of this, his error is not because he did not practice caution, but he already anticipated failure even before he started...and so opportunities slipped from his hands and never came back until he passed away. He had been courageous enough to admit though his fear of starting anything so he can't move forward. I am entirely the opposite of him. I stumbled already how many times, but I keep on getting up to where I stumbled. I can say now that I am now cautious, not because of fear of losing, but in order to be prepared if there is unforeseen circumstances. 

"Opportunity knocks but once", so goes the saying. It doesn't mean to just grab that opportunity without studying the details. Studying the details is a part of being cautious but the moment that you had already seen the pros and cons, then it is the time to take the risk of getting involved with the opportunity and the risk ahead, let the nature takes is course.