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There is a certain magic atop the high-dive ladder. Though incredibly frightening, it is also fantastically exciting. For a brief moment, you are among the treetops. Up here, the world is more expansive. Up here, the wind blows more vigorously. Up here, you are a little closer to the sun.

The high-dive moment is a solitary moment. The moment all your preparation, and all your effort and anguishing, have led you to. It is the moment you’ve been waiting for, your chance to shine. It is your moment. Though it is a moment intense with fear, this is not a moment to be rushed through. It is a moment to be relished!

Life is one long procession of risks. But during our lives, only a handful of risks are truly destiny-changing. These are moments that, once passed, make up life’s reminiscence. The purpose of this part is to help you relish these giant leap moments, as you are taking them, instead of longing for them once they’ve gone.

Principle 5, Put Yourself on the Line, talks about how our personal investment in the risk goes up to the extent that we have some “skin in the game.” By managing the genetically coded impulse to preserve ourselves, we can learn to relish our intense risk moments.

Principle 6, Make Your Fear Work for You, explains how fear, properly contained, can be converted into excitement, making your risk more enjoyable.

Principle 7, Have the Courage to Be Courageous, describes the nature of courage and how essential it is when taking your big risk.