Learn to Take Risks
I go to grappling lessons a few times every week. I like it because it keeps me fit and is also a challenge.
There is always a new move to learn or a new way of doing an old move and for every move there is a counter move and so on.
Not my point at all but I wanted to put this into context.
I was training with my instructor and was lucky enough to have two other instructors in with us who had double booked the room. During the conversation my instructor was talking about enjoying what you are doing and diving in so you can learn from your mistakes.
Many people grapple but don’t want to get caught so nothing much happens during the spar. He then said something which applies to life “If you want to be a success you need to take a few risks.”
Massive.
We have been brainwashed from the moment we could walk to not take risks, play it safe and keep your head down. But I’m afraid that won’t get us far. As Robert Kiyosaki says – we get punished for making mistakes as employees but we get rewarded for making them as entrepreneurs.
Paul Browning
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It’s true that we are conditioned to play it safe. I’ve never been much of a risk taker myself, but I am learning that there are benefits to being a risk taker.
Playing it safe all the time just keeps you on the background…
I like the quote from Robert Kiyosaki. I have observed the same thing. Most of us just keep waiting for someone to tell us what to do rather than taking the initiative to do something ourselves. Risk taking is definitely discouraged as an employee.
Sometimes its better to take a risk as an employee, it helps you stand out.
If you are suggesting something to your boss, which maybe a bit risky, it shows that you are not a yes man and that you are willing to put your head above the parapet and take that risk and not be like the rest of his workforce and just do enough to get by.
Taking risk is to see your strength instead of your weaknesses. Look what you want, plan how to get it and be willing to do what is out of the box to make happen. If requires to learn, buy or change something you do it.
It’ s not just doing something different and crazy out the blue, is to do something that at the end you grow, learn, and benefit others. It may not result on the first try, but, you are willing to do several times until it happen.
I think that it goes hand in hand for as you look at the life and you want to achieve.
I had a good chat with a very old friend of mine on Thursday, and said, as long as you have courage in your convictions and belief in youself, you can do anything, which includes taking risks which you know will pay off in the long term in abundance.
I think sometimes the line between crazy and genius is really blurred. I think that genius is when someone takes a huge risk and works hard to make it pay off.
Taking a risk means that you could get hurt, and many people are just not willing to put themselves into that situation. It takes a special kind of person to be able to jump into something with no predictable outcome.
You never know. Sometimes taking a risk turns out to be the best thing you could have ever done. I have seen it happen. It takes a leap of faith but it is worth it.
Absolutely!
People who do the unexpected reap the reward. Others will wind up working for the risk taker.
I like what you wrote about being willing to learn from your mistakes. It makes you feel more free to take more risks.
Your article is spot on. If you are not willing to take a few risks in life than you will never be who you really want to be. A person just has to learn which risks are good ones to take and which ones are not.
I take Krav Maga too so I know how you feel. Being constricted to one thing and not taking the chance to learn something new can be anyone’s downfall because it negates the fact that we as human beings are progressive. notice how Bruce lee’s Jeet kun Do, strives to update their technique every few years. this is because BRuce, as an artist himself, knew that new techniques would be developed to overtake every other systems as well. Cheers!
Taking risks has its pros and cons. But this is where education and quality hunch must be taken into consideration. too many time we find ourselves in the casino working on a hunch. playing poker though is a whole new game. in which you have to comply with a strategy based on your opponents move. ultimately you still take a risk, but it is a smart risk non the less. In business class we are always told by our professor that everything involves risk, but we have the upper hand if we can make intelligent risks.
There is nothing as liberating as taking risk. There is so much thrill going for something that you’ve already decided on. it is just like the saying it is better to have loved than to have died never having loved another human. truly life is about risks.
Not taking risks is one of the things Older people seem to regret. I guess there is much wisdom when you get older. Then again these risks must be smart risks for a lot of risk takers are now broke because of las vegas. or any other casino.
I’ve read it in a book where it says, before we can get we must first give. I think that saying perfectly complements what your trying to say.
Ned was using casinos in his analogy but the point applies everywhere – informed risk is what’s called for, not total foolishness. But from a base of knowledge, with a reasonable understanding of likely outcomes, you can make an informed decision to take the risk and accept the consequences, which will hopefully be the best case, but might be the worst case.
We seldom think we’ll fail when taking risks. How many of us have planned in advance for what we?d do if our risk did not succeed? I?m not sure I have!