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Uploaded: 2026-01-23T17:09:45.000Z
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This is the story of the biggest risk of my life.

If you listen to it, I think it will help you, and

I am so afraid of risks that I don't drink coffee.

But here is something we don't talk about as a society.

We don't talk about the necessary risk that we have to take.

It's the kind of risk you cannot grow without.

In 2016, I took the biggest necessary risk of my life.

See, I was young, 24 years old, single, making $120,000 per year, working as a software engineer here in the city of Dreams, New York City.

5% more money, 5% more friends, 5% more knowledge.

On this exact date, April 8, 2016, I told my manager that I am quitting my job and leaving the country.

I want to finish around the weekend of April 7th, 8th.

And then I want to take a flight directly to Africa.

And then after that, I want to travel to South Africa and then to Brazil and Bolivia and then give myself a shot.

I lost my job, I lost my income, and I lost my US Work visa.

I just arrived in Kenya and started making videos under this page called NAS Daily.

For the next eight years, 2,920 days, I worked like a donkey every single day and made thousands of videos with hundreds of failures.

I don't want to make a single one more video.

I don't want to make a single other video.

It went from zero followers to 66 million followers.

I went from having $40,000 to $20 million.

It inspired them to see the world and become more tolerant.

It broug more than 100,000 people in person in a hundred countries.

This is the result of necessary risk in your life.

I still don't drink alcohol and I don't even drive.

I don't like unnecessary risk but I continue to take necessary risks like launching a community hotel called NAS House and the community platform platform called NAS IO.

And best of all, I continue to take necessary risks on love.

This story is not about me and my love life.

This story is actually, like always, about you.

When you think of risk, you think of jumping from buildings or driving fast.

The world needs necessary risk takers because the world grows when we take necessary risks.

So take a risk on someone you like and ask them out.

Take a risk on your passion and make it your job.

Take a risk on a new country and immigrate.

Take a risk on your dreams and go all in.

For God's sake, just take a necessary risk on your yourself.

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