which encourages us to take blind risks, unaware of the variability in the possible outcomes. We inherited the taste for uncalculated risk taking. Should we encourage such behavior?
We seem to have risk-taking genes that encourage us to take uncalculated risks. Be that one sperm that wins the race to the egg. The rest are half children that die someplace. Are those partial abortions?//
Ok, that's stretching the idea, but many people start a sales career each year. Something like 80% will fail during the first year and in the process will have exhausted their savings. Want to have a better chance? Save three years of living expenses before starting a sales career. Do some people succeed sooner? Yes. They are usually both hard-working and lucky.//
You won't see the failures at the headquarters motivational events. The difference between the successes and failures may be one lucky phone call. Of course, the successful person needs to make that one lucky call. Mix them in with tens of thousands of failures.//
