Monday, April 20, 2015

April 2015-2: Risk Taking and Big Ideas



We talked about risk and failure.  My question is what big idea would you risk/fail or die for?  Is there anything? Why would it be worth it?  How could you accomplish such a thing? There are entire fields of study devoted to risk and risk aversion.  Try to deepen your response with research.

44 comments:

  1. In my personal opinion, there are few things worth dying for. Truth and justice are examples of intangibles or overarching ideals I would die for should certain circumstances arise. In terms of risking or failing to achieve something, I would consider employment and family primary objects to risk or risk failing to achieve. Truth and justice are worth dying for because, in my mind, they're the only true, consistent systems of keeping individuals in check. If we allow truth and justice to go by the wayside, society will most likely follow. I would risk or risk failing to achieve employment and/or family because each is a significant component of my ideal future.

    In a study conducted by the University of Virginia, risk aversion was primarily examined in terms of economics. The study unearthed a bevy of information that can be applied to more ostensible, simplistic scenarios. As mentioned above, I believe the only ideals worth risking or risking to fail for are employment and family. The study detailed numerous situations where risk aversion can be observed. For example, in auctions overbidding is an example of risk aversion because it's an example of exceeding set standards in hopes of optimizing a situation. The same principle can be applied to employment or family. I would risk more (i.e. paying more money to go to an out-of-state school) to achieve better employment opportunities and lead a better quality of life. Each is important to me for my future, and risk aversion plays a vital role in both.

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  2. I'll be honest with y'all: That presentation brought me to the verge of tears. No joke. This dude seemed like perhaps one of the coolest people I had ever seen speak in front of people. He was witty, knowledgeable, and passionate.

    If you think about it, it's arguable that he became the way he is now because of the giant risks he took. He took risks trying to integrate architecture and solar energy in school, all the way to risking his reputation at the hands of the formidable Chinese government. I think that he truly demonstrates the kind of "risk-takers" that IB wants us to be: willing to take risks for something we believe in.

    You could tell that he wholeheartedly believed in his work and his designs. To me, that seems to be perhaps the "right" kind of risk, as opposed to taking a risk by skipping class and doing drugs. So I guess my point here is that if you are going to risk something, you better be gosh darn sure that you believe in it 100 percent, because if not, why risk it?

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  3. Jonathan-
    Risk is something that many people can sometimes associate with a gamble. In my opinion Risk is a gamble, you have a 50/50 chance at owning or a chance at being owned. Risk is a tricky topic due to its uncertainty. But when you consider beliefs, ideas and the idea of risking it all based on that belief or idea, would we do it? Many people would do it. For example, if you take the holocaust, many people were risking their lives based off a belief or idea. They were gambling that they would live despite their beliefs. They were gambling on that they could out last the war and still have their idea intact. I hope that was clear. When thinking about it, would it have been worth risking it all. That depends in my opinion, on the the individual.

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  4. Risk can connect closely with a person's sense of purpose in life. Risk can provide a clear goal and purpose as well as a clear result as to whether one has achieved it. Most things worth doing in life require some amount of risk. Although it definitely varies based on the individual and their personality, I personally find risk to be exciting and worth pursing if the potential for success is enticing enough.

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  5. In my opinion, taking risks is one of the most important things in life. If you wholeheartedly believe in an idea or topic associated with risk, it is absolutely worth it to take risks in order to achieve goals. However, risks don't always end well which is why, by definition, they are called risks. Things one is willing to die for are usually things that they support, and value more than life. For example, most people would be willing to die for another family member because they believe that their family member's life is more important than their own.

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  6. Risks are important because they enable the risk taker to learn from his/her experience. They can see what they did right or wrong and improve their decisions in the future. Without risk taking, people would not learn to value judgment, which is a key aspect of risk taking. Humans use judgment everyday, whether that means looking both ways before they cross the street, or deciding if pursuing one job or another is good or bad. Risk taking, with judgment, happens in everyday life as well, and there is no way to avoid it. Risks are needed to push people to live there lives to the fullest.

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  7. Risks are not only important because it furthers the self, or expands horizons, or opens eyes. Risks are important, and people admire others who take them in a certain field, because it is proof of your utter and complete devotion and belief in that certain thing. To take a risk in such an unsure and noncommittal time of society, is a huge show of strength, and above all, faith. Things you're not sure what the outcome will be, but you think will turn out for the better, and if it doesn't, you'll learn something anyway. Those are the risks worth taking, and that will inspire others.

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  8. I think that I would risk or die for the truth of what is wrong with how we treat the earth and how to change our behavior. However, there are problems with all risks, because the foundations of those risks are based on belief, and perception. Nevertheless, I would risk for the opportunity to make the world a better place, and expose what is really happening to everyone I could. I would even want to go beyond that, because the truth can only go so far to motivate people, sometimes you have to take the first step and act to spur movement. I would do it because I want to leave a ripple in time with my life, and it is worth it to risk in order to accomplish something that you support whole heartedly, and that will benefit people, not hurt them. How would I do it? I am not sure. I would have to learn the truth of what is wrong, and determine what my role in changing people's behavior is.

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  9. I believe that a distinction needs to be made between risk and taking a chance. Taking a chance is where no negative repercussions are involved. A risk on the other hand, is a situation where negative consequences are possible, but the positive outcomes outweigh the negatives. A smart risk is one where the negative consequences are carefully thought out, and the person taking the risk is prepared to face the consequences of that risk.

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  10. I believe that taking risks is a good thing for the most part. It forces you to step outside of your comfort zone and develop and learn skills you might not have known existed. In addition, if you don't take risks, you may miss out on amazing opportunities just because your trying to play it safe.

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  11. Woody Allen once said, "If you aren't failing every once in a while, It's a sign you aren't doing anything describe innovative." Putting aside the fact that he's a transparently awful person, Allen brings up a universal human truth. Risk is a delicate balance between fear and desire. Desire, the drive to gain something, whether that's some kind of professional or creative fufillment, or something as simple as a dopamine rush. And fear, usually the overwhelming urge to avoid negative repercussions.
    There's a Moroccan saying I'm fond of. "Fear eats the soul." We are often ruled by our fears. We all have the capacity to innovate, but our drive and willingness to do so are stifled by the paranoid thoughts we create for ourselves. We avoid opening ourselves up emotionally for fear of being rejected, we avoid challenging ourselves professionally or creatively out of a fear of failing and suffering humiliation and losing face. We avoid self-improvement out of an instinctual phobia of change. The act of taking on risk is a conscious denial of these fears. And in doing so, we gain an immeasurable amount of strength, whether or not we succeed. In fact, failure becomes a kind of success in and of itself. This is why I think it is essential to have beliefs that one would be willing to die for. In being willing to lay down one's life for an ideal, one accepts the ultimate risk. And in doing so, lets go of the greatest fear of all: that of one's own mortality. Out of this comes one of the greatest liberations one can experience.

    - Luke Nicholson

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  12. The only way you can succeed is if you take risks. Without risks you couldn't be living. It is impossible to live without risk. You can risk your life everyday by just simply stepping outside and going to school. Everything you do, even if you don't realize, could be a risk. If you are not stepping outside of your comfort zone and reaching into your challenge zone then you will not be successful. Without a little bit of fear you will go nowhere. You need the fear to motivate what you want to do. That is what will lead you to success. Even if you fail it will cause you to look at your wrongs and then you try again. You stretch your boundaries and go for the bigger picture. Without risk there is no gain.

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  13. It is impossible to live a life free of risk. Everything we do has some degree of risk in it, we just have to individually decide if we want a big or small risk factor. By determining this we can see which activities we should and shouldn't do. Risk are important because they allow us to see things from different perspectives and we can broaden our horizons by trying new things. If we didn't allow ourselves to take risk, no improvements would be made and there would be absolutely no progression in society. Like Ellie said, even if you fail that shouldn't stop you from trying again. Failure is also important because it gives us the opportunity to see what we did wrong, evaluate and try again.
    I don't really know what I would die for but justice, equality, and liberty I believe are really important to each individual and so that might be worth dying for. Also I think anything that is going to improve the world overall and allows society to be as great as possible may be worth dying for The last thing I would risk everything for is anything that makes me really happy and something I absolutely love (such as family). I think if something is really important to you and everything you do is focused on that one thing, you may risk your life for it.

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  14. It is true, as everyone is stating, that one can't go through life without risk. One risks their life by just getting out of bed in the morning. There are of course higher degrees of risk.. like sky diving compared to trying a new cereal brand, but they're still both risks. Along with the different intensities of risks, I wondered if there are different kinds of risks. Maybe those are the same thing, but what I'm thinking about is the difference between the act of throwing down a brick on a person from a high building to the act of throwing down a brick from a high building without first making sure that there is nobody beneath who can be hit by the brick. There is a moral difference between these two acts and I think that is how risk-taking is compared to ethics. An analysis of the difference would have to refer to the moral aspects of risk-taking as rather than intentional ill-doing. I think that a fairly complete account of the ethics of risk must determine the difference between intentional and unintentional risk exposure and between voluntary risk-taking. So maybe there aren't different types of risk, just a thin line between risk and ignorant thinking.

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  15. it is important to take risks in life because if you don then Ur not really living your life at all. your just trying to finish the race and you only get to run the race once so you might as well try and win.

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  16. I know for a fact that there is an idea or belief out there that I would kill and die for. History is comprised almost entirely of people who have died for ideas. As of yet I have not found an idea worth dying for, but it certainly exists. Dying for something is worth it as long as you think it is worth dying for. We don't know why someone dies for something, but when we are faced with a situation of this nature either we suddenly understand or we don't.

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  17. I know for a fact that there is an idea or belief out there that I would kill and die for. History is comprised almost entirely of people who have died for ideas. As of yet I have not found an idea worth dying for, but it certainly exists. Dying for something is worth it as long as you think it is worth dying for. We don't know why someone dies for something, but when we are faced with a situation of this nature either we suddenly understand or we don't.

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  18. In my opinion, there are very few things that I would die for but many things that I would risk my life for. I would only die for my family and friends, because I know that they would die for me but also because I know that my life would not be the same without them. Unlike ideas, family and friends will always be a part of my life and will always hold precedence over me. Some ideas that I have I would definitely risk things for, because some ideas mean a lot to me and I would want to make sure that the viewpoint I have is portrayed in society.

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  19. In my opinion, there are very few things that I would die for but many things that I would risk my life for. I would only die for my family and friends, because I know that they would die for me but also because I know that my life would not be the same without them. Unlike ideas, family and friends will always be a part of my life and will always hold precedence over me. Some ideas that I have I would definitely risk things for, because some ideas mean a lot to me and I would want to make sure that the viewpoint I have is portrayed in society.

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  20. There are very few things that I would risk my life to die for, but that is only currently. I live in what most would consider a sheltered environment. I have clothes to keep me warm, civil rights, political and social freedom, and good economic mobility. There is very little injustice that is confronting me currently. However, that could very easily change. I would fight and die for any member of my family, not if they wanted me to, but if I had to in order to save them in some manner. In addition, I will fight and die for freedom. Not just social and political freedom, but true individuality and self determination. It is one of the many reasons that, if it had been 76 years earlier, I would have volunteered to fight in WWII. But really, I don't know what I would die and risk for, because I have never been put in that situation on any real or significantly severe level.

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  21. I agree that taking risks is an important part of the growth process. In order to spark a change, there must be a risk. Risk is the seed of progression and without it, our society is steadfast and, eventually, outdated and no longer applicable.

    Without small risks, we risk even more.

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  22. There are few things in my life that I would outright die for, other than cliché ideas like love or truth or justice, but I feel that there are many things in my life that are worth taking risks for, no matter if they are small or big risks. Also, I feel that I am much more inclined to risk my life for a tangible thing in my life like family or friends that I know and love, than some broad, overarching idea like love or truth or justice.

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  23. I believe that risk is an important part of life, risk can have lots of payout. I do believe that risk should be considered though, if you have lots to lose but little to gain it would be illogical to try the risk.

    Risk shouldn't always try to be avoided because if your whole life revolves around trying to avoid risk that doesn't sound fun. Some risks such as starting a new business can have huge negative affects, but then also it can have a huge pay out. You gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

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  24. Risk is a natural part of life. Everything can be classified as a speculative or pure risk. Pure risk, also known as absolute risk, is insurable. Speculative Risk: Three possible outcomes exist in speculative risk: something good (gain), something bad (loss) or nothing (staying even).

    Along with risk comes reward, and this is how people make decisions as to whether a risk is worth taking/facing or not. When a risk is less than or equal to its reward, it is logical to take the risk for the chances are high that a reward will be reaped, or if something bad comes of it-the consequences are small.

    Once the consequences of a risk outweigh that of the reward, or one has a greater possibility of facing consequences instead of rewards, one must decide if that risk is a gamble they're willing to take.

    Many people also decide to face "pure risks", and subject themselves to the consequences- not for their own benefit, but for the benefit of the greater good or for their larger cause. These are seen when people risk their lives and freedom for religious, racial, sexual, social, or political purposes.

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  25. Risks are a very important thing in our lives, with them we open our minds up to different things and views and also shows what you care about especially if you are willing to die for it. Also a huge thing about risk is that you learn from your mistakes and when you succeed. Learning from your mistakes is very necessary and beneficial thing. We learn the best lessons from when you fail. Also failure can be a motivator to do it better and more efficient.

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  26. I was intrigued by one of the comments that a student in our class made when we had this discussion in class, that in theory they (and I agree) would die for a cause, but that they (I) haven't found that cause yet. I would really like to say that in the name of equality, freedom, or some such noble cause I would willingly lay down my life regardless of any potential for serious change, however I don't know that I trust that I really would. I don't know that I can count on my morals past a certain degree without having a situation that tests them, and I definitely do believe that fear or imminent threat of some sort might cloud my thinking a little as it were. While the threat of death is a pretty extreme example of this phenomenon I think it relates to a lot of other things in society as well. For example young students may know that bullying is wrong and have strong feelings about it, but when faced with a situation in which they could step in to defend a victim, I imagine that the fear would overwhelm many children. It certainly would have overwhelmed a young Emma. Another more serious example of this is the concept of the 'bystander effect' we often in history, such as it relates to the concentration camps in WW2 for example. Although countless Europeans must have known that the atrocities were taking place, a culture of complacency combined with overwhelming fear to keep hundreds silent, unable or unwilling to speak out.

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  27. I would risk/fail or die for peace. Peace is worth it because it is the end of conflict, it can end immense amounts of pain and suffering, it can also help people get on a better track for the future. To be honest I don’t think there is any way to make complete Peace. Peace is such a complex thing, it is incredibly difficult to accomplish. There will always be new conflicts that arise. That is the true difficultly of life, not only for humans but for everything in nature. We always fight, and disagree on things. It is easier to find peace in individual things. Life without conflict would be fantastic! In order to accomplish peace you would need to take it slow and focus on single conflicts at a time and try to find a solution that leaves people happy. And all persons involved would need to have a mutual understanding that they need to respect and honor all people even if they have a drastically different points of view. And if people gained this point of hopefully they would think in this mindset about each other this way, therefore, resolving future conflicts that could arise.

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  28. Like Emma, I don't necessarily think I've found something I'd make the ultimate sacrifice for... yet. If we are talking 'ideas', then no. I don't know what for or if I'd consider laying my life down, especially for something theoretical. But, if we're talking about another living, breathing being, someone I could relate to on an intellectual or emotional level, I can't say I wouldn't save them over myself. Now, this seems to be a 'selfless claim', but in all honesty, my motives behind saving another if put in that situation are very self-serving. I wouldn't be able to continue existing as myself if I were the reason someone else was not existing. So, I'd sacrifice for them to save myself from a life misery, self-hatred, and the shroud of disapproval those around me would project in the aftermath of a tragedy in which I didn't take the high road.

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  29. The problem I see with self sacrifice is the inability to make any more progress after the act. The most common form I can think of would be martyrdom, which when examined, is usually not that useful. Yes, it does grab the attention of other people and could draw sympathy to a cause, but couldn't the person have accomplished more if they spent their entire life fighting for a cause rather than one quick attention grabbing moment? Rather than "laying down my life" as everyone else had been putting it I would much sooner dedicate my life to a cause that i truly believed in.

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  30. I don’t necessarily people would be readily willing to die for something, seeing how as death is such a large consequence-it takes away from everything we have ever known, and since there is no research into the subject of death, it is sometimes talked about as ‘the great unknown’. As far as the greatness of the risk, I believe that even though it varies from person to person, each human holds certain values higher than most and would be willing to sacrifice many things to obtain those values. With accomplishing the desired goal, many times the goal often requires a sacrifice of some kind. The amount of that sacrifice, I think, determines the amount of risk an action has.

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  31. Making risks are always going to include failure. Not consistently, but in order to advance, you need to fail to learn from your mistakes. We have all grown up learning that quote and succeeding through what we have been told and advised from our parents and elders. To risk my life for something, the outcome would have to be for the greater good or a very deep purpose for myself to attempt. To risk my life for saving something or making a point. If something was risking the life of the planet, then I would probably sacrifice myself. Maybe.. As long as I would be certain the world would be in good, safe hands.. But we all die eventually so to die for a greater purpose would be personally fulfilling and (hopefully) helpful to others.

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  32. That risk is an important component of life is inarguable. Risk is borne from necessity and yet too often risk takes an enormous amount of time and effort to come into fruition. Take, for example, the laughable fact that "it took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage" as pointed out by William McDonough. There is a human tendency to become stagnant and focus energies and efforts upon the distant unachievable intangibles rather than immediately achievable tangibles. And that tendency makes sense. It's why it took 5,000 years to put wheels on luggage but in that 5,000 years infinite theories on the most abstract components of humanity were formulated. It's more noble to stand for something such as world peace than it is to stand for the cause of an easier way to use a remote control for your television. This is true despite the fact that the latter is not an impossibility while the former is. Practicality is far less admirable than nobility. This is perhaps attributable to the truth that risks associated with practicality are not risks elevated to that of life or death while those associated with nobility are.

    What, then, would I allegedly risk my life for? It is certainly a testimony to the functioning of our society that we consider the loss of our own life to be the ultimate risk but if I were to pinpoint a cause I believe worthy of this 'ultimate' risk I would reference the question that William McDonough posed in his talk, "How can we love all children of all species for all time?" If that is not a noble, intangible impossibility than I don't know what is. If presented with the opportunity to risk my own life in the name of such a cause I would flatter myself in saying that I would do so. Risking my life for a solution to the few qualms presented by annoying tv remotes? Probably not.
    T.S Eliot once said, "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

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  33. What I would risk dying for is to have this question answered: What is the purpose of our existence? I find it hard to believe that we are nothing but just a random event. I think this is so important because it is believed that the answer to this question would explain the meaning of everything so we would know how to proceed rather than approaching things blindly. However this question is impossible to answer so we resort to taking risks and prepare for the possible negative consequences that can arise from these risks.

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  34. Risk taking is not something that can be defined as simply positive or simply negative, each individual risk should be weighed with it's pros and cons. There are some that are far more apt on taking risks than others, and i find that this is often because their pros more frequently outweigh their cons. If you're a professional skier, you are more likely to "take the risk" of skiing down the side of a mountain you've never been on, as opposed to someone that has only been skiing once or twice.

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  35. First off, just to get it out of the way, stupid risks aren't worth it. Now to the actually interesting stuff. One shouldn't take a risk all the time. That's my blatant opinion. One false step leads to more false steps until there is nowhere left to step. However, risks can give you a great advantage as well. It's like rolling a dice. Let's say that 1-2 is a negative result, 3-4 is neutral, and 5-6 is positive. If you get that positive result, you can move your piece forward on the board. Neutral you stay, negative you move backwards. If you're near the end of the game with nobody close to winning, you might as well. But, if somebody is close behind you shouldn't, unless you think they will and they will win because of it. This probably sounds all muddled, but essentially there are a whole bunch of different situations, and many of them aren't worth it at all. But, if you take a risk you feel comfortable with and you get it, it's like you've taken a shortcut, and things will be much easier from there.

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  36. Risking your life or dying for something is obviously a big decision so I think that if I were going to die for something it would have to make a huge positive impact on the lives of many. I would also have to be certain that the affects would be long lasting and to be really cliché it'd have to be something like world peace that's a little extreme but if i was going to die I'd want to make an impact. For risk taking as a whole and non life threatening situations I think it is very important to take smart risks. Ones that aren't going to cost you every thing if they don't turn out, ones that have a greater reward than the risk. I think that these risks are important because with out them you would be stuck in a rut and never have any success.

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  37. I would be willing to die as a martyr for my faith and for certain justices as I have an idea of what would happen to me after. Yet I do, however, completely agree with Jack in the fact that self sacrifice is the inability to make any more progress after the act. I believe that passion is enough to gain the attention of others in an important issue. Use your passion to inspire others, a valuable life does not need to be extinguished for this purpose necessarily. But issue is so worthy of having their lives?

    Dying for something will get people's attention for change? Are people or youth taking action for or trying to help what so many have died for in our armies or child soldier organizations or the publicized atrocities against people for their beliefs abroad?

    What difference would dying for something truly make in our society and world?

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  38. Clearly risk taking is pivotal when it comes to success. There has never been a clear path to anything without some element of risk along the way. What we need to focus on though, is minimizing the risks, or being smart about them. If you go through life without taking risks ever, then you'll never get anywhere, but if you go through life taking ill advised risks, or too many risks, odds are, its going to catch up with you. Its important to success not only to take risks, but to be as smart about them as humanly possible by cutting down on variables.

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  39. Risk taking is an essential factor in our day to day lives. Living without taking risks is merely impossible. Risk taking may be scary, but more often than not you will benefit from it, even if that involves failure. Failure shapes us, it is what allows to advance, to change, and to become better. Risk taking involves courage, strength, power, and a positive mindset. Every individual has importance and can make a difference.

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  40. If you are going to risk your life for something, it should be more important than your life. This is the most difficult task in the process of risk taking. Putting a value on your life and then comparing that to the value of an idea is extremely hard and sometimes impossible. However, there are some things that I would be willing to risk dying for. The most obvious and easiest to justify is dying in order to save those that you care about because instead of multiple people dying, there would only be one. Some others that I would die for include my values that I believe should be upheld.

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  41. From what I can tell, the fields that devote their study to the issues of risk and risk aversion are mainly concerned with finance and economics, generally exploring how humans make decisions and why they make them based on what risks they are willing to take and which they are not. This is obviously incredibly important in these fields where determining the likelihood that an individual will be willing to pay a certain entry fee or the like is based on the extent to which they are predisposed to risk they monetary stability. On a more universal level, many studies have explored whether humans generally seek out risk or avoid it, as well as what factors go into decision making. One important factor is the idea of consequence that follows risk, which determines to what extent human being access the seriousness of a consequence and decide whether the “risk:consequence” ratio is worth it in the end.
    In my opinion, the only things worth dying for are those issues that are beneficial to the evolution of human thought. The people throughout history that are rightfully idolized are those that had the ability to risk themselves for an outcome that they were very unlikely to see come to fruition in their lifetimes. The most notable risks are those that advance important issues that will change the course of society and improve the way of living for entire populations that need greater freedoms and the like. Issues such as Environmentalism also make this list, because of the overarching nature of them to all of humanity. Without large scale risk, there would be no large scale change.

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  42. Everything someone does everyday involves taking a risk. The risk for that day may not be that big, but ultimately it still is a risk. There is at times though where someone can choose to take a smaller risk or take a large risk and to me the one who takes the bigger risk more often is more likely to become famous, to become that person they've always dreamed of. On the other hand if a risk gets to the size of sacrifice your own life that's when it changes completely. Those who are willing to die for something are the people who feel that their is something they want to protect whether its freedom or their family. For me I wouldn't even think twice before i risked my own life for my family, values, and the other things that I hold close.

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  43. Risk taking is absolutely necessary for anything to develope. If one is not willing to branch out and do something never thought to be done then we wouldn't have some of the great developments that we do now. Speaking on the the manner of risks worth dying for I believe that people are willing to die for something they're passionate for or care for greatly.

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  44. I think a 'big deal' that i'd be willing to die for would be someone that i loved. like a family member or friend. i also think that risks are essential for growth and if you didnt take risks, you would never progress

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