Wondering how the individual you see on the screen seems to be no more different from you yet hold the position of a tycoon? How is that the simplest of men becomes the greatest of visionaries? The one small step that separates laymen from such highly successful individuals is that the latter have had taken risks. Right from early childhood, we have been raised to segregate between the safer waters in life and the territories that are virtually risky. This where risk and its impact on our lives come into the purview.
“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more”
Coming from Eric Jong the words seem like the easiest way to explain how powerful a role risk plays in our lives. The ability to take risks is not something every one has in-born. Some people learn to take risks as experience adds to the lines of their life book. Some people are inherently prepared to tackle things that are considered risky, with ease. The easiest and most credible examples of risk takers are manifest in the entrepreneurs. Of course, each person has his or her own story that has doses of risk taking involved. A Muhammad Ali or a Steve Jobs would never have been in the pages of the earth’s history, if these men were not willing to take up a risk.
Taking risk means putting a lot at stake
The main reason why most shirk away from taking risk is that dong so involves you having to do away with a lot. Coming out of the conventional boundaries of life and treading a path that is not sure to lead to a sunny terrain is something real winners and courageous people can relate with. Just to analyze the limits we have set for ourselves lead to considering our ability to take risks. Remember, one can never foresee for sure what the future has in store.
What one can merely do is apprehend and frame a goal to fulfill the apprehension. Therefore, for a positive apprehension to come into force, it is integral to march on with risks. Risks are not obstacles to progress. Risks rather are, the hurdles, you need to leap over to gain rank in the race. Yes, race is perhaps synonymous with our lives in the contemporary times.
The thin line between positive and negative risks
What most of us get confused about is whether the encouragement to take risks also overflows into the encouragement for launching exploits in negative ambitions as well. This is whereby you need to utilize your quick thinking and analytical ability. A risk is only worth taking if it gleams with the possibility of the sheen of success. In case, the risk pronounces a lot of under-the-table sort of jobs that lead you into a darker plain, then the risk is actually more of a misguiding danger. Therefore, you need to be vigilant enough to choose between taking the risks that are only worth taking.
As Eliot has said—“Only those who risk going too far can find out how far they can go.” Indeed, the words are gems of wisdom for all those who are part of the fast paced lives of today.
