Understandably, the felt need of nearly every young person is how to acquire authority—how to gain the capacity to act in the workplace and in the broader world. And yet, my advice to them almost always comes down to this: embrace more risk. Only those who have opened themselves to meaningful risk are likely to be entrusted with the authority that we all were made for and seek. Indeed, to seek out meaningful risk actually is its own kind of act of authority, because in the economy of the world’s true Creator and Redeemer, meaningful risk is the most meaningful action, the life that really is
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