Take a moment and imagine yourself living an ordinary yet happy life. You’re good financially and happy where you are, but what if something you could’ve done in the past made your life greater today. Taking a Responsible Risk is scary, but no one really knows how great the outcome can be.
What exactly is a “Responsible Risk” you may ask. Taking a responsible risk means that you are willing to try something new regardless of the outcome. Not knowing the end result is why people don’t like taking risk. For example, let’s say a student had a big project coming up that was worth half of their semester grade. Hypothetically speaking what if instead of following the rubric completely they think outside of the box and do the project a little different but more effort was put in to making it. This is an example of risk taking because it shows how going an extra mile, not on the right track could get a better result than doing it how every other student will.
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Most people are more likely to be a follower than a leader and this stops people achieving more in life. A poem called “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about how a man is walking in the wood and comes upon a two-way path. He stands and tries to decide which path to go down and while he’s debating he notices how one path looks well-kept while the other path looks more old and seems as if people haven’t walked down there in a long time. People misunderstand this poem and just think that it’s a man on a walk, but when you think about the poem and its deeper meaning you see it’s a man trying to decide whether or not to take a risk and do something many people many haven’t done before and not just going down the more common path like everyone else does. Literature is a great way to inspire people to take more responsible risk in their own
Taking a risk is something very few people are willing to do. If you think about it all the greats had to take a risk before they succeed in anything. In The Odyssey, Odysseus takes a huge risk fighting in wars, trying to get back to his beloved Penelope. Much like Vincent Willem van Gogh , A painter, who took huge risks living off of his art, but now he is One of the greatest painters of all times. They both risked their lives to succeed in something great.Van Gogh could have gone broke and starved to death Odysseus could have died at sea or in war. People take risks every time they get up and present a paper or show people there art work. You could mess up, but you also could succeed. This quote from book twelve, “ But as I sent them on toward
Sidewalks are different shapes and sizes, people tend to make their own decisions to which way they would want to go. Going through the motions on a sidewalk is similar as going through the motions of life. There are many turns that could get you to your final destination and turns that can also get you into places you would not feel so comfortable being. Staying on the right path and trying to get to where you need to go isn’t so hard but when you have other sidewalks with nice grass and big beautiful street lights that can be a very big distraction to the eye and that could cause problems in your life. Nice sidewalks sometimes don't always tend to continue a nice path so they can be very believing at first but when you make it to the end
Life on the Road It’s fair to say that life on the road is something most people do not desire, as a way to live out their days; but a young man named Chris McCandless believed it was necessary to avoid the venomous grips of society. McCandless goes as far as to venture out to the rest of the United States and even crossing borders to achieve his true destination, Alaska. He shows us living such a life can hold many unique and wonderful experiences.
Margie Warrell explains how as a culture we don’t take enough risks. We do this because our modus operandi is to catastrophize and predict things will go wrong even though we often overestimate the risks. She also states that we expect things to be worse than they would be if they do turn out badly because our brains are wired to do so. Often we are pessimistic of our own abilities and so we expect we will be unable to cope with the consequences, thus we try to avoid risk so we don’t have to worry about needing to fix things in the aftermath. While overplaying the risks of doing something we downplay the risks of following the status quo—we try to persuade ourselves that it is better than taking the risk even if the status quo is sub-par.
When I was younger, I really wouldn’t take risks. When I did take the risks, they would help me or others. For example, I asked questions about test and homework that people wouldn’t have. By asking these questions, it would help me become a bigger risk taker. Risk taking can turn into a horrible situation, but taking risk can save lives and help people who were to afraid.
In belief my opinion I believe route 66 is better.Because it is much better to ride on.It is better to me because the Interstate is all loud and noisy while on the other hand Route 66 is much much more quieter and peaceful.When your riding on the interstate its like your baby brother crying all night long while Route 66 is sleeping like a peaceful cloud.Route 66 is the highway of the unknown and the Interstate is the highway to hell.What i mean by that is the Interstate is sometimes narrow while Route 66 is a open road.On the Interstate people are cursing and fussing about how slow or how fast one is going or doing wrong.Wherever you are on any Interstate will get you there faster you will also have to deal with a lot of traffic but on Route 66 you wont have to deal with much traffic.Although there are more places to stop and Drink on the interstate On Route 66 there are many places to look see and maybe visit. In the prompt it talks about and states that sometimes its like a journey or sometimes like a rush to get from point A to point B.It also says that Route 66 is old so that means that there would be some more things to look at.Sure the interstate gets you there faster.When you drive the two lane highways it does not matter how much time it takes.In fact you might even wanna keep driving and driving and driving because you are having so much fun.
Risk has been defined by Kenney (2010) as a situation that puts human values and/or life at stake and although there was always the idea that risk can be a negative as well as a positive thing, after the twentieth century the latter was considered irrelevant and suddenly the terms ‘risk’ and ‘danger’ became interchangeable (Hope, 2013). When it comes to young people in particular, their overall lives have become a persistent
Risks. To me, risks come in packages in my everyday life. I know I am at risk when I step on a field or court because I can get injured. Some of these injuries include tearing ACL’s, or breaking your wrist. I also am at risk when I am running around the corner of Emerson Ave along the yellow lines because I can be taken away by someone I don’t know.
An example of a negative risk is throwing something at someone, or talking out of line on purpose during class, knowing you should not do it. It is the choice you are making that you can make whether it is positive or negative. The speech “Address to the Nation on the Explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger,” by President Ronald Reagan. “The Vanishing Island,” an article by Anya Groner. “The Day I Saved A Life,” an essay by Thomas Ponce.
Since Beck (1992) claimed that we are now living in a “risk society” there has been an abundance of sociological research surrounding the subject. Most recently the idea of voluntary risk taking has been brought to the fore front of sociological debate. It is clear that in a society where people spend a great deal of time avoiding risks there are also people actively seeking to take part in risks. Why is this the case, and are there certain groups within society more prone to this type of risk-taking behaviour than others?
Overcoming adversity is imperative. In fact, you can 't have the happiness and success you want unless you have adversity in your life and overcome it. It is essential for progressing into who you want to be. It shows you what you are made of. It teaches you more about yourself, how to approach what you want, and how to maintain the success that you have. Without it, you wouldn 't know how far you could go or how capable you are because you wouldn 't have anything to push you or compare to.
Good risk taking is considered to be a risk that is relatively safe and rewarding in its outcomes. This can include any form of sport such as swimming, football, basketball. It can also include academic accomplishments such as high achievement, creative abilities such as dancing or music, community service and even travelling around the world. Bad risk taking is often associated with the use of alcohol, drugs, unprotected sex, reckless driving and illegal online activity (Raising children network, 2015). All of which present themselves in potentially dangerous environments and offer no beneficial outcome.When discussing these risks more often or not this form of good risk taking is often overshadowed by bad risk taking, especially when paired with teenagers in modern day society. However there is a major misconception with this viewpoint, as parents have a pre-conceived notion that teenagers act this way due to some form of
To take a chance, one is accepting the possibilities of what could happen from the choice they have made.
Not every event has a guaranteed outcome- sometimes, one has to take a gamble in the game of life. There are some, however, who would prefer to travel within the safe, confined lane of actions with a definite outcome. Deciding whether or not to take risks in life can be tricky, but as Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” This quote means that people should take risks in their endeavors, because life is precisely about trying new things and experiences. As the quote explains, taking risks in life is a vital step to success, fulfillment, and gaining more out of experiences.
Many don’t realize that the road to success isn’t so much a road as it is a winding,