The problem is that there are side effects to many actions. It’s all well and good to say “go for it,” but if going for it limits your options further down the road, is it worth it?
I think it is wiser to choose your chances carefully. Choose the ones that maximize benefit without having huge downsides for failure.
Dale Carnegie takes the high risk, high reward approach. That’s one way of doing it. Slash and burn through your life, I guess. But I don’t know what it means to “go the farthest.” That seems like a potentially very selfish approach that ignores the hurt you might do to others.
It might be a good way to make a lot of money. Is that going the farthest? I’m not sure it’s a good way to make peace. I suppose it might be a good way to create art, but then, artists get so little attention, it hardly matters the risks they take. It can hardly get worse for them, unless they do something illegal.
Dale had a simplistic view of life, but then, he was a salesman, and salesmen do well by encouraging people to make hasty decisions. Salesmen think it’s best if they paint things in black and white. They are full of enthusiasm because they don’t want people to really think.
Dale was a snake oil salesman, and I wouldn’t pay him too much attention.