Project 365: 23/365

Scenario: When you're presented with two gift boxes with different size (with different gift inside), with the guarantee that the bigger box has high value gift, the smaller box might or might not have higher value gift, and you're to choose the box that brings more value to you, which would you choose?

Would you choose the bigger box since you've been assured with the high value gift, or would you take the risk and choose the smaller one?

Risk taking is an entrepreneurial spirit that leads you to success.

But can we say not taking risk makes you a failure? Can we say not taking risk makes you lower than risk takers?

Wanting a simple and secured life is one's choice. It all depends on how one perceives successfulness. Maybe his/her sense of successfulness is to live a secured life.

Taking risk is a knowledge. You have to work hard to assure yourself that choosing smaller box is not a risk.

Risk. Uncertainty. Fear. Lack of faith.

They are all connected.

When you have no faith in your idea and your ability, when you are not sure whether it will work, when you have fear for failure, when you're not making the choice because you believe in it, but because you HAVE TO, you are not taking a risk. You are just placing a bet. You are gambling.

Because if you did sufficient amount of research, finding out facts, enhancing your own skills, believe that your idea will work, it is not taking a risk anymore. It is more like doing what you truly have faith in, without any doubt. It only appear like risk taking to people who didn't work on it and understand it like you do.

You won't win every bet you've placed. Eventually you'll need skills, instead of luck.