9 video lessons
Progressive videos that reteach the skill of acting without guaranteed outcomes, plus prompt walkthroughs for each level.
Tiny Risks MethodSign inFor people who are stuck on autopilot
Ruin a nice, predictable life by mastering how totake risks again.
9 video lessons. 3 levels of risks to try. Free.
This free interactive course rebuilds one specific skill: the ability to act without knowing if the outcome will be incredible or absolutely terrible (or neither). We'll rebuild it by taking tiny, deliberate risks until anything you dream of doing — tiny or not — is entirely possible again.
What happened to you since you were a kid?
Your brain automates everything it can.
Your brain has one job: keep you alive while burning as little energy as possible. So anything you do repeatedly becomes a pattern it runs without thinking — your route to work, what you order, what you say yes to, whether you speak up.
That works great until it automates your entire life. When every day runs the same script, your brain has no reason to record any of it. You can't remember last week because it looked identical to the week before.
As a kid, you tried things constantly without knowing how they'd go — you climbed stuff, talked to strangers, wore baffling outfits to school — and the world felt full of pathways. That ability is a skill, and skills fade when you stop using them — just like if you played piano for ten years and then stopped, you'd lose it. Pick it back up and it comes back faster than you'd expect.
You are what you consistently do.
Run the same comfortable routine on repeat and your world becomes a mirror of it. Most people want a novel, interesting life — they just don't want to give up the predictability required to get one.
How you get your risk-taking skill back
You can't read, listen, or journal your way out of this.
Books, podcasts, and journaling keep you inside your head — which is where the problem already lives (rent-free!). The skill comes back the same way you developed it as a kid: one small action at a time.
A tiny risk is a deliberate action with a touch of downside. The tiniest version of these risks? Send a text. Publish a rough draft. Say a thing in a meeting. Order something different. And then they get increasingly riskier from there. These are things you already want to do, but you stopped because you couldn't predict exactly how they'd go, and your brain HATES that.
Each risk you complete teaches your nervous system that acting without certainty won't actually ruin your life. Stack enough reps and the hesitation shrinks until acting becomes the default again. You start taking bigger chances every day just to see what happens.
Does it work?
What people said about the Tiny Risks Method
I would have never sent that email before this.
Doing this felt impossible before Tiny Risks.
Plot twist: currently in Belize.
I'd say it's going well.
Something about rewiring brain circuitry.
I'm the only man in the class. Initial weirdness complete!
Flights purchased. I think you're definitely onto something.
It took me several hours to write that message, and I sent it.
I can start doing more things without overthinking.
The action steps — instead of just learning about it — is what's helpful.
If you put the word "tiny" in front of it, then it seems doable.
What you get
Lessons, risks, and a platform built for real-world action
This is not another course you nod along with and promptly forget. The videos explain why you're stuck. Everything else is built around doing — taking small uncomfortable actions, logging what happened, and seeing what other people are already trying.
3 levels of tiny risks
Escalating stakes, from almost-nothing-can-go-wrong prompts to going rogue with your own ideas.
Prompt library
Ten curated risks per level, plus the full library whenever you need more options.
Personal risk log
Log what you did by text, voice, or video. A running record of things you did instead of things you read.
The Risk Wall
A feed of risks other members took and what happened next. Proof this works on regular people with regular lives.
The Ripple Map
A ripple map of the outcomes from all the risks taken during the course (and beyond).
The Three Course Levels
01
Rebuild the Reflex
Low-stakes risks where almost nothing can go wrong. You're reminding your brain that acting under mild uncertainty won't wreck your life.
02
Expand the Stakes
The risks get more visible. Other people can see you and react to you. Real outcomes start showing up in your week — sent emails, hard conversations, things that sat in your head for months and now exist in the world.
03
Create Consequence
Bigger swings. By the end, you stop needing prompts and start running with your own ideas.
Who's behind this thing
I'm Jake.
Here's the short version of the story: I spent my twenties taking big swings at weird ideas — built a treehouse in South Africa, raced a hollowed-out mango tree down the coast of Tanzania, wrote music, published projects online that sometimes worked and sometimes flopped terribly. Either way, life was novel and interesting. I was living it. It wasn't happening TO me.
Then I spent my late twenties and early thirties doing what seemed like the responsible move and optimized for a “good life”. When I felt numb or stuck, I bought self-help books to try and fix the feeling. None of it changed anything in my day-to-day life. I just had a more sophisticated understanding of why I was the way I was.
Then I had three strokes in seven days at age thirty. Healthy, active, no family history. The doctors were confused (and still are!). But now I know it had everything to do with the stress of living a singular pathway that was incongruent with what I actually wanted to do with my life.
What I figured out afterward, mostly by accident: I'd been treating this as an information problem, but it was a skill problem — the same skill I had in my twenties but stopped using because the comforts of a “good life” sucked me into the trap. Once I started using the skill again in small doses, my world opened back up fast.
This course is what I wish someone had handed me before the strokes. It's free. The only part that matters is whether you do the risks. Watching the videos and feeling briefly motivated changes nothing.
Acting under uncertainty — in a world that shoves comfort down your throat every day — is the skill most people have lost. This course re-teaches it.
Here's your first Tiny Risk prompt:Sign up for a free course from a stranger on the internet.
Drop your email and I'll send you the course.