do you think there is any benefit in taking risks in life?

Question

can you think of an example to support your answer?

Answer 1

Sometimes you take a risk and it changes your life, for the better.
Sometimes you take a risk and it changes your life, for the worse.
Sometimes you take a risk and it doesn't change your life at all.

But, you never know, unless you take that risk.
It's called living life instead of just living.
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Answer 2

Life IS basically risk assessment.

Unless you're going to live in a bomb shelter, life involves constant risk; it's just a matter of degree.

Let me put it this way, I don't plan on jumping out of any perfectly good airplanes, but I can understand why some people do it for fun. Doesn't mean I want to.

Some people insist on living on the stressful edge of financial management, and basically betting their jobs on a daily basis. I prefer a job with much less anxiety.

I'm not into conventional forms of gambling, only because I don't believe in "something for nothing," but this, too, is obviously big entertainment for many.

Things that I've done that involve some degree of risk include ocean scuba diving and wilderness exploring/canoeing. Certainly there were barracuda and moray eels in the waters I dove in, but it was a risk I was willing to take.

And when canoeing, its possible that we could be struck by a tornado, miles from civilization, or we could fall and twist an ankle or break a bone. It could happen.

But, if you're experienced, there's much less of a risk factor.

Answer 3

I believe there is great benefit to be had but also possibly great suffering. Isn't that what living is, sticking your neck out and seeing what happens? We take a risk getting out of bed every morning but what kind of life would we have if we didn't. It's easy to regret risks we've taken that didn't work out but I don't think we appreciate how some risks worked out for the best. I suppose that's because we can never know what might have been.

Answer 4

You take risks in life everyday. You're at risk when you drive a car, but the benefits of driving outweighs them for most people.

For some, the risks of childbirth are taken for the obvious benefits. Other risks, both physical and Non-physical, include job changes, marriage, divorce, surgeries, and large financial investments (home, car, etc)

We brave risks everyday, but don't think much about them because the benefits generally outweigh them. However, for those who don't think so, their lives are far more limited. There are many people who die lonely for fear of marriage, or work in a crummy job for fear of leaving the security of their present one.

Answer 5

When you eat food, you're taking a food posining risk. Every time you go out in public you take the risk of catching an infectious risk.

Calculated risks are good and healthy. But, throwing caution to the wind, and risking your home on a game of Blackjack in Vegas is probably not a healthy risk to take.

Answer 6

What do you mean by risk? In the economic sense, risk assumes perfect knowledge of the distribution of probabilities. So for every decision you make, you would know the exact probability of every outcome. And every potential outcome, for that matter. Uncertainty assumes you don't know the probabilities, and possibly not the outcomes. In the first case, it is the only way to make a true profit. In the second, depending on what's at stake, it would be kind of stupid.

Answer 7

To some extent everyone has to take risk for important works which can change life. But u should not take that much risk by which you will never come back or can come to previous position and which can not harm any body's life.

Answer 8

is it better to love and lost to never have loved at all?
of course it is you must take risks to experiacne life is it better to watch a movie about walking in the woods or to do it feel it taste it and love it ? like the others say life is inhertly risky so i suppose your talking about unnessary risks like the ones i love sky diving rock and mountain climbing , and my feeling on that is you must risk what you have to truly apperciate it, if everything is always safe everything becomes mundane and grey no highs no lows just mundane is that how life should be a single line from your birth to your death? or should it be a series of slopes and hills?
i climb mountians to look down on people who live life in the low lands of the valleys who are always wondering what the world must look like from the top but never venture for fear or risk, only if they would join me they'd see the whole world rather than just the little valley

Answer 9

There are a lot of benefits in taking risks in life.
Generally, it is better to have regrets for something you did, than for something you didn't. At least you tried....

Answer 10

No you should not take any risk in life. In that case you are not safe in your own bed either. There is a risk in anything you undertake in life. The best you can do to minimize the risk by proper planning or making the odds to work in your favor. They say that if there are no risks then there're no gains.