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– Jeff Staple responding to an article in Wired on being a risk taker in life and in business.On a bell curve, the timid and the reckless are the outliers. The one-third who are slightly more likely to take risks I call “The Golden Third”.
It is possible to work consciously toward joining “The Golden Third”: Just get in there and start pitching. As with knife-throwing, unicycle-riding, and whip-handling, one gets better mainly by practice. Make your choices smart ones. It’s not difficult to discriminate between a good, soul-enriching risk and one that’s just plain nuts.
The most successful adventurers take the high road of risk-taking without falling off the mountain. They channel neither Evel Knievel nor Caspar Milquetoast, neither lion tamer nor monk. That’s the golden art of living dangerously.
