Definition Essay On Risk Taking

“On Risk” The dictionary defines risk as “a situation involving exposure to danger”. From my experiences when speaking with others; particularly those in their forties and above, many tell me that if they were able to go back and change one thing they’d have taken more risks.
Risks aren't easy to take. Advances in brain imaging technology now show that humans are wired to avoid risk. That is to say that people find it easier to accept the status quo, keep our mouths shut and our heads down rather than take a chance make a change, and speak up.Daniel
Kahneman wrote in
Thinking, Fast and Slow, “ when assessing risk, potential losses tend to loom larger than potential gains” Therefore effectively hindering a person's decision on whether
I personally believe in the saying “no venture, no gain.” Only when we take the risks, do we realize our full potential.
This saying speaks true to me in that as a young child I remember being deathly scared of swimming. knowing that one day I still tried and learned how to swim and I've been swimming ever since, swimming was a risk that I took knowing that I could drown, but yet if I never took that risk I would have never realized how it could be.
Risks must be weighted, or in other words the risks being taken must be “calculated risks”. Only a fool would try to fly an airplane without any rudimentary training and consciousness of the dangers involved. Flying an airplane is a extremely risky endeavor . But if they were to fly they have to be brave enough to take risks of knowing the consequences of that act.. In a similar situation Jon Krakauer writes about the life and adventures of a young man by the name of Christopher McCandless in his book Into the Wild. In the book Krakauer follows
Chris as he journeys into the Alaskan wilderness to live life of solitude but is hopelessly unprepared. As he heads into the wild a man offers him a ride and notices how ill­equipped