Don’t believe that you will always adopt the safest course.
On the contrary, believe that every course invites risk.
“Prudence consists in knowing how to recognize qualities in inconveniences and in picking less bad as good.” - Machiavelli, “The Prince”, XXI
Your better decision making comes from knowing how to recognize and leverage that which gets in your way - to turn lemons into lemonade.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way, becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”
There are no guarantees, only opportunities.