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Risk!

By Adam Rifkin

Your task is to find the risks worth taking. No risk is worth taking.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about taking risks

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Why you should not trust successful people's advice: Survivorship bias.

Curse of the lottery: Tragic stories of big jackpot winners

Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common by Maria Popova

The Art of “Negative Capability”: Keats on Embracing Uncertainty and Celebrating the Mysterious | Brain Pickings

Researchers created unusually intelligent mice by altering a single gene that made the mice less likely to feel anxiety or recall fear.

It's impossible, said pride. It's risky, said experience. It's pointless, said reason. Give it a try, whispered the heart.

Why I Liquidated My Retirement Account and Bet On Myself

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, courage to take risks, discipline to tell the truth, capacity for sacrifice. ~Ernest Hemingway

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Reasons To Get High, Or Why Pole Vaulters Risk Everything For An Extra Half-Inch

3 Improv Exercises That Can Change the Way Your Team Works

Thinking of God Makes People Bigger Risk-Takers

Why has human progress ground to a halt? – Michael Hanlon, Aeon

Brain Pickings - The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and The Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long

why taking risks is one of the greatest keys to living fulfilled

This Simple 'Power Pose' Can Change Your Life And Career -- TED talk by Amy Cuddy, notes by Henry Blodget

5 Questions Successful People Routinely Ask Themselves

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The day I left my son in the car - Salon.com

The Simple Heuristic That Saved 150 Lives

I'd risk everything to get what I want. ~Littlefinger S4E3

The 3 Obstacles to Doing Epic Deeds and How to Overcome Them

Are we becoming risk averse and less entreprenurial? Businesses being destroyed faster than they’re being created.

Do Unmarried CEO's Take More Risks?

A Multi-Factor Analysis Of Startups | TechCrunch

Why We Miss Creative Ideas That Are Right Under Our Noses

UK study shows that five-second rule actually exists

The Risk in Speaking Up | ashe dryden

The Dangers of Planning: Goals Gone Wild

The Psychology of Trust in Work and Love | Brain Pickings

Money, Wealth, Risk, and Bitcoin, by Daniel Tenner of swombat

Mental Model: Margin of Safety

Trying to quantify uncertainty for Insurers - the economic cost of risk (ECOR)

Place Your Bets Early

Data security rules have changed in the age of big data, 5 questions to identify exposure of the enterprise to greater risk and damage

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. ~Grace Hopper

8 Chances Happy People Always Take

Team Building: How to use Moneyball at the office to build great teams

Thrill Seekers Less Adventurous Than A Generation Ago - Science News - redOrbit

Why geniuses don't have jobs

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. ~Helen Keller

The three risks startups face, by Christopher Lochhead, PandoDaily

How the Sunk Cost Fallacy Makes You Act Stupid - Lifehack

How Agencies Sell Risk to Brands | Digiday

Intuition Pumps: Daniel Dennett on the Dignity and Art-Science of Making Mistakes | Brain Pickings

Google's Regina Dugan Demos Electronic Tattoos & Ingestible Passwords

My 22 Favorite Slides from Reid Hoffman's "The 3 Secrets of Highly Successful Graduates" Slide Deck

How to spot a murderer's brain

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