Are you a risktaker?

Are you a risk taker? Do you think you have a stronger appetite for risk relative to your friends and family? We asked some folks from the community about their approaches to risk and have shared their thoughts below.
One thing that I have become that I wasn’t in my early 20’s is a calculated or intuition guided risk taker. A lot of times we think the best way to get something done is to take step one, then step two etc. “when we are ready”. What you have to realize is there’s certain things in life that you won’t be ready for until you jump in fully ready to try! I’m a Houston native, in the sense it’s where I was prior to going to undergrad, however I was dead set after going to Dallas for a concert while in college it where I was meant to be. Read more>>
Taking a risk has played a huge part in how my company started. I was told by many people before even starting my company that deciding to start my own business at my age was not smart and was too big of a risk. This only fueled the fire of me wanting to start my own business even more. Read more>>
You know, being a singer in my country, Iran, comes with significant risks due to the prohibition of solo performances by female singers. Despite all the challenges and even warnings from the government, I took this risk and continued with my profession. Read more>>
Taking a risk is always going to be scary especially when you take a big risk you just can’t always see the outcome clearly. At first it was just a thought, it was a dream that I would think about at night, “what if I did it on my own and started my own business?” I remember i would stay up late at night and day dream about one day starting my own business and each day that desire to do it grew more and more and it would literally keep me up at night. Read more>>
Risk has always played a massive part in my career as a freelancing filmmaker. The biggest opportunities and paths have occurred and remained as result of throwing caution to the wind. Read more>>
Conservative with investments, paranoid about my physical safety and a very comfortable inhabitant of my comfort zone, I never really thought of myself as a risk taker. But my life and career choices definitely paint a different picture. From a very early age, I “knew” I wanted to be an attorney. Read more>>