The biggest risk is not taking a risk...

Jace

Jace

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Are you a risk-taker? (Def..The factor, element or course involving uncertainty)

Or not?

Have to think about it 🤔...o.k.!
 
I always ask myself what's the worst that can happen.

I also look at the reward associated with the risk.

I suppose most people would say that I'm not much of a risk-taker.

“Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.” - Samuel Butler
 
Yes, since earliest memory. Learned quickly to mke most of them calculated risks not just blind daring.

What most people forget is that pretty much all of life is a risk. It is a matter of choosing which are most palatable and rewarding for oneself.
 
Aunt Bea said:
I always ask myself what's the worst that can happen.

I also look at the reward associated with the risk.

I suppose most people would say that I'm not much of a risk-taker.

“Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.” - Samuel Butler
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Well said.

Weighing potential negative consequences against potential rewards/benefits is exactly what i meant by saying i learned to take calculated risks.
 
Those who avoid risks are usually in fear of failure. Yet many of the best lessons we learn in life come from failing, getting up and trying again. Overcome fear of failure, and risks become much easier.
 
As you get older, logically you should take more risks. This is all about 'Micromorts' - the chances in a million of dying. The chance of dying doing any particular activity remains fairly constant, but the chance of dying naturally increases as you age.

When you are young, the chance of dying while taking a risk is much higher than dying naturally. However, when you are old, the odds are reversed, so you might as well take the risk.

Some examples .....

ActivityMicromorts
Climbing Mt. Everest37,392 mm
Being born430
Giving birth170
Getting out of bed (age 75)105
Using heroin (one time)30
Going for a swim12
Skydiving (per jump)10
Running a marathon7
Getting out of bed (age 45)6
Scuba diving (each dive)5
Traveling 1,000 miles in a jet1
Traveling 230 miles in a car1
Skiing (per day)1
Horseback riding (per ride)0.5
 
To me, to not take risks is to let go of being alive.
I've always lived by these quotes.

From my hero, Teddy Roosevelt:
"Far better it is to dare mighty things. to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

and,

"The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life, the dominent characteristic is that it is unafraid. it does not adapt either to it's pace or it's objectives to the pace and objectives of it's neighbors. It thinks it's own thoughts, reads it's own books, it develops it's own hopes, and it's governed by it's own conscience.
The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he wo lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone."
(don't know who said this, but I love it and live by it)
 
Capt Lightning said:
As you get older, logically you should take more risks. This is all about 'Micromorts' - the chances in a million of dying. The chance of dying doing any particular activity remains fairly constant, but the chance of dying naturally increases as you age.

When you are young, the chance of dying while taking a risk is much higher than dying naturally. However, when you are old, the odds are reversed, so you might as well take the risk.

Some examples .....

ActivityMicromorts
Climbing Mt. Everest37,392 mm
Being born430
Giving birth170
Getting out of bed (age 75)105
Using heroin (one time)30
Going for a swim12
Skydiving (per jump)10
Running a marathon7
Getting out of bed (age 45)6
Scuba diving (each dive)5
Traveling 1,000 miles in a jet1
Traveling 230 miles in a car1
Skiing (per day)1
Horseback riding (per ride)0.5
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I was actually born dead... what were the MM chances..? :D
 
I used to be until I lost more money than I could afford to in the stock market because Goldman Sachs lied on their prospectus. :mad:
 
Capt Lightning said:
As you get older, logically you should take more risks. This is all about 'Micromorts' - the chances in a million of dying. The chance of dying doing any particular activity remains fairly constant, but the chance of dying naturally increases as you age.

When you are young, the chance of dying while taking a risk is much higher than dying naturally. However, when you are old, the odds are reversed, so you might as well take the risk.

Some examples .....

ActivityMicromorts
Climbing Mt. Everest37,392 mm
Being born430
Giving birth170
Getting out of bed (age 75)105
Using heroin (one time)30
Going for a swim12
Skydiving (per jump)10
Running a marathon7
Getting out of bed (age 45)6
Scuba diving (each dive)5
Traveling 1,000 miles in a jet1
Traveling 230 miles in a car1
Skiing (per day)1
Horseback riding (per ride)0.5
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I'm one fall away from a nursing home so I'll continue to be careful. Thanks anyway.
 
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