Shownotes Transcript
Risk is relative to the person who is taking the risk, regardless what the task at hand is. The same task to one person may be severely riskier to one person than the other. We would be terrified to drop into a skatepark if you asked us to do it today, but for a seasoned skater that would be nothing to them. We often think of our heroes as these gods that laugh in the face of challenge or risk, but in reality they are humans just like us. We let the fear of risk stop us from doing something that someone else took a shot at just a little bit earlier. Our heroes have just done it a lot longer than we have. So at this point the same task that we are terrified of even attempting has become old hat to them, solely because they did it!
The idea that came into mind for us was really this idea that as children we have this reckless abandon that allows us to approach things without a care in the world. We aren’t scared of what our peers think let alone others. It isn’t until the age of 7 that we become self aware and for the most part our parents or other role models almost force us into extracurriculars to allow us to push ourselves everyday and take risks, like making friends or learning a new skill. As we do that more and more we become better at it and then we want to do it for ourselves.
As adults now we no longer have our parents there to tell us what to do or how to continue to push ourselves outside of our comfort zones. If we can take the emotion out of the actions that we have to take, the risk and fear of failure slowly dissipates. At one time your heroes and the people that we look up to were just like you, the only difference is that they put fear aside and took the risk over and over and over again! Risk is Relative!