Are you a risk taker?
This topic was created in the Relationships forum by lisabethur8 on Saturday, July 22, 2017 and has 9 replies.
do you feel you are one? And if you are, where and what area in your life are you a risk taker?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200011/are-you-risk-taker
"Do you drink and drive, gamble, or sleep with strangers? It's not just a behavior. It's a personality.
Rita lives for excitement. She dies of boredom when life becomes too predictable. She has a wide circle of friends but no tolerance for dullards. She likes meeting exciting new people, even if she knows that they are unreliable. She smokes tobacco and marijuana and drinks hard—and parties heavily on weekends with cocaine and Ecstasy, or any new drug that appears on the scene. She thinks nothing of going to bed with someone she just met, without obtaining character references or condoms. She has a Porsche that she drives...fast. She also likes to gamble at the casino—often losing more than she can afford.
Rita's behavior encompasses many kinds of risk. In the long term, the most dangerous of her activities are smoking and drinking. There are nearly 80 times as many deaths per year from tobacco and alcohol as from cocaine and heroin. But Rita thinks only of today's gratifications, not their associated dangers.
Rita is a fictional character, but she represents a kind of general risk-taker, one whose behavior encompasses many different activities. Such broad-spectrum risk-takers not only exist, I have discovered, but have a distinctive personality makeup that is the product of both genes and experience. It is important to identify such people because they create significant public health problems, for others as well as themselves. But for all the danger they put themselves in, they personify—perhaps magnify is more precise—a human trait that is very much responsible for our survival as a species.
Over the decades I have studied a personality trait called sensation-seeking—the pursuit of novel, intense and complex sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such experience.
Risk-taking is not the main point of sensation-seeking behavior; it is merely the price such people pay for certain kinds of activities that satisfy their need for novelty, change and excitement. In fact, many of the things that high sensation-seekers do are not at all risky. They enjoy high-intensity rock music, view sex and horror films, travel to exotic places, and party without drugs.
Sensation-seeking can also extend to the physical, involving unusual or extreme sports such as skydiving, hang gliding, scuba diving, auto racing, rock climbing and whitewater kayaking. An interest in participating in such sports describes one subcategory of sensation-seeking: thrill- and adventure-seeking.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200011/are-you-risk-taker
"Do you drink and drive, gamble, or sleep with strangers? It's not just a behavior. It's a personality.
Rita lives for excitement. She dies of boredom when life becomes too predictable. She has a wide circle of friends but no tolerance for dullards. She likes meeting exciting new people, even if she knows that they are unreliable. She smokes tobacco and marijuana and drinks hard—and parties heavily on weekends with cocaine and Ecstasy, or any new drug that appears on the scene. She thinks nothing of going to bed with someone she just met, without obtaining character references or condoms. She has a Porsche that she drives...fast. She also likes to gamble at the casino—often losing more than she can afford.
Rita's behavior encompasses many kinds of risk. In the long term, the most dangerous of her activities are smoking and drinking. There are nearly 80 times as many deaths per year from tobacco and alcohol as from cocaine and heroin. But Rita thinks only of today's gratifications, not their associated dangers.
Rita is a fictional character, but she represents a kind of general risk-taker, one whose behavior encompasses many different activities. Such broad-spectrum risk-takers not only exist, I have discovered, but have a distinctive personality makeup that is the product of both genes and experience. It is important to identify such people because they create significant public health problems, for others as well as themselves. But for all the danger they put themselves in, they personify—perhaps magnify is more precise—a human trait that is very much responsible for our survival as a species.
Over the decades I have studied a personality trait called sensation-seeking—the pursuit of novel, intense and complex sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such experience.
Risk-taking is not the main point of sensation-seeking behavior; it is merely the price such people pay for certain kinds of activities that satisfy their need for novelty, change and excitement. In fact, many of the things that high sensation-seekers do are not at all risky. They enjoy high-intensity rock music, view sex and horror films, travel to exotic places, and party without drugs.
Sensation-seeking can also extend to the physical, involving unusual or extreme sports such as skydiving, hang gliding, scuba diving, auto racing, rock climbing and whitewater kayaking. An interest in participating in such sports describes one subcategory of sensation-seeking: thrill- and adventure-seeking.
Posted by tizianiyou mean you like to be passive and less assertive?
So far in my life no, but over the last few years definitely physically I can feel my threshold for boredom getting lower.
Posted by AneemA08from reading that, i am definitely NOT a risk taker. I am always cautious and afraid. jeez.
Compare to Rita, then I wouldn't be that much of a risk-taker. Pretty contained.
Only occasionally watched disturbing movies.
My kind of experiences are just having conversations with people. Perhaps exploring music (now on music, I tend to test my moon by doing this, so I would know which one I can take and which one I can't, etc) and then having the "highs" to produce something such as writing or music.
Unfortunately I haven't been productive on that area.
that sounds horrible from the article.
yuck!!!
as for music, art, writing, i am fine with that.
what are you talents you feel you are good in?
I love thrill..the adrenaline rush..but I'm definitely not a risk taker. My risk taking is pretty calculated. I'm not impulsive or curious.
Posted by Teenai used to love riding on the back of the motorcycle with my ex's, they were very big time risk takers.
I love thrill..the adrenaline rush..but I'm definitely not a risk taker. My risk taking is pretty calculated. I'm not impulsive or curious.
i'm glad we didnt get into an accident the way they rode.
i only like one ride in Disneyland/Disneyworld, which is considered "high risk" and that is Space ride, that is dark inside and you go fast like a rollercoaster. I can't see anything but stars, so it's good. lmao.
and only my stomach was left behind.
now i understand......my Aries and Sagittarius sun sisters were more "risk takers" than me.
they both liked rollercoasters, but it was the 2nd one who decided that it was too much risk taking. lol and the Aries liked rollercoasters up to a point until she turned thirty and decided no more.lol
i, have never liked rollercoasters, but i like ferris wheels.
weirdly the Aries became more homebody and less risk taking in events but her work is very risk taking.
Posted by lisabethur8Lol! I'd take any ride. I love the feeling. I don't consider it a risk.Very mild kinda sensation seeking maybe.But you know when I get on rides I keep laughing like crazy. Idk why. It must be my nervous reaction or something but I can't stop laughing??Posted by Teenai used to love riding on the back of the motorcycle with my ex's, they were very big time risk takers.
I love thrill..the adrenaline rush..but I'm definitely not a risk taker. My risk taking is pretty calculated. I'm not impulsive or curious.
i'm glad we didnt get into an accident the way they rode.
i only like one ride in Disneyland/Disneyworld, which is considered "high risk" and that is Space ride, that is dark inside and you go fast like a rollercoaster. I can't see anything but stars, so it's good. lmao.
and only my stomach was left behind.
now i understand......my Aries and Sagittarius sun sisters were more "risk takers" than me.
they both liked rollercoasters, but it was the 2nd one who decided that it was too much risk taking. lol and the Aries liked rollercoasters up to a point until she turned thirty and decided no more.lol
i, have never liked rollercoasters, but i like ferris wheels.
weirdly the Aries became more homebody and less risk taking in events but her work is very risk taking.click to expand
I sure love rides.But it's not like I wanna keep going for them.Not coz I consider them as risk...but meh!
I'd love to gambling, is that the same as risk taker?
Yes... I take risks on my music choices and also I've risked the "image" I put out because "sex" sells... you'd be surprised to know I'm a home body who loves to cook spend endless nights with my kids falling asleep in my bed. And I'm a one man woman.
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