Say it like this

The chance that the thing you hoped for does not happen.

For the grown-up

Risk is the possibility of an outcome worse than the one you planned for. Everything worth doing has some. The useful skill is not avoiding risk but knowing roughly how much you are taking and whether you could survive it going badly.

The easy mistake

Careful here. A risk that pays off was still a risk. Children, and adults, reliably judge decisions by how they turned out rather than by what was known at the time.

Words next to this one

Invest Using something valuable now, hoping it becomes more valuable later. It might not. Entrepreneur Someone who notices a problem and decides to be the one who fixes it. Save Keeping something now instead of using it, so you still have it later. Business Somebody fixing a problem for somebody else, who says thank you with money.