This week on the podcast, Kristy shares some research based principles around risk taking that will help us understand not only our personal tolerance for risk, but also will help us better understand the people we care about. 

Learn to distinguish the difference between decision making and risk taking by assessing the severity of possible outcomes. Improve your risk management by looking at how your history, upbringing and social context may influence your ability to wisely take risks. Can this be improved on, or are we built a certain way that doesn’t easily change? How can knowing the social context of ourselves and others improve understanding and even relationships?

Could risk taking be part of protecting a valued identity? And if so, could this help explain the dare-devils and the nervous Nelly’s in our lives?

Join us and strengthen your risk taking strategies through a better understanding of yourself and others!

RESOURCES AND REFERENCES:

1. The meaning of risk taking: key concepts and dimensions

2. The impact of life experiences on risk taking

3. Determinants of risk taking: Behavioral and economic views

4. When taking risks is the best strategy