To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I'd learned my lesson.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.