There are so many definitions to risk in business, in personal lives and professional lives. Risk is a boxed up definition that gets refined as we get better at limiting ourselves.
When we put more and more limitations on our lives we tend to consider everything we do outside our normal routine is: risk.
What is risk?
My risk is not what your risk and it’s not what your neighbors definition of risk either.
Some people might think working a 9-5 is a risk. It can be detrimental to their retirement goals and they insist to retire faster than ever so they decide to create a need for the market that takes off.
Risk is only there after you built it in your minds and put yourself physically in that situation. Otherwise, everything else is normal life.
If someone decides to drop out of college and start something odd, weird, or not in the norm of our societies point of views, that’s not risk. Steve Jobs did it, but somehow he became successful.
Others might think going to college and being put in a box for one degree, one major and doing only that one thing for the rest of their lives is a risk. Their heart rate goes up thinking about it so they work twice as hard not to go there.
Going surfing in the ocean, some may think is absolutely a risk. You might die, you might get injured, you might drown, you might get eaten by a shark or memo, and the list goes on. That risk is only defined by a human.
For some, quitting social media is a risk, but others have lived without social media for years and are sane, happy, successful and excited about their lives (not about someone else’s on your social media feed)!
Will you live a life that’s boxed up, risk-free, and up to the American standards? Do you have faith that you will propel from wherever you are because you have something special that can only be created by you?
