I get that it’s important to be safe, but I worry about the consequences of making that a priority. If you don’t take chances, how can you invent yourself? If you aren’t comfortable with instability, how can you create change?*
Jean Twenge

If we’re afraid or benefitting from feeling trapped, we start to eliminate the handles.**
Seth Godin

Whilst Jean Twenge is concerned
for the iGeneration’s^ desire for safety, it is possible that
we all recognise the disposition that avoids risk, and
can find our way into it’s soporific clasp,
So resisting committing and investing, moving, exploring and experimenting, attracting criticism,
And yet experience tells us, this is exactly where we find the possibilities …
And the guides –
We will also become guides to others:
The world to a guide, is larger than themselves and
their personal story. 
Guides care … The guide passes down more than wisdom;
they pass down compassion and empathy.
They have been defeated themselves and have
climbed back; they know how it feels to be tempted by
helplessness. They have been misunderstood, so they seek
to understand. They have been abandoned, so they are
loyal.^^

*Jean Twenge’s iGen;
**Seth Godin’s blog: Looking for a handle;
^iGen is Twenge’s name for the generation who have grown up with and have been shaped by the iPhone, born after 1995 and entering university around 2013;
^^Donald Miller’s Hero On a Mission.