Flirting With Disaster: Risk taking

Most people try to minimize the amount of risk they face in their lives. George Kourounis explains why this way of thinking rarely produces great results and how your comfort zone is a terrible place to be.

Society today seems to shun risk as much as possible, but this only leads to a vast propagation of mediocrity. It is only when we embrace our fears and use them as a motivating force—instead of crippling us into inaction—that we are able to achieve great things that we never thought possible.