A Quote by John Shumate
Do one thing everyday that scares you... Taking risks takes practice.
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There are some risks we choose to take because the benefits from taking them exceed the possible costs. Optimal behavior takes risks that are worthwhile. This is the central paradigm of finance: we must take risks to achieve rewards, but not all risks are equally rewarded.
That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.
The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge - not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.
Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.
If one takes the kinds of risks which I took, which are colossal, but taking risks, I was rewarded by being able to contribute in a very substantial fashion to a variety of fields. I was able to reawaken and solve some very old problems.
Nothing's about taking risks as much as doing stuff that other people haven't done before. Just like in racing, it's not about taking risks but trying to figure out how to be faster.
When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good.
If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.
Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.
Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.
On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.
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