Fear must be mankind's biggest enemy? Most of us, we shroud our fears into socially acceptable nomenclature. 'Practicality' being one of the most ubiquitous. We strive to be practical and sensible, which merely means that we will mostly do something that is tried and tested and is basically failure proof. we hate to fail , and love to minimize risks.
On the contrary, homo sapiens were designed to take risks. Why? because we have the most amazing and complex brains of all living beings. We can negotiate risks like none other , and if we try we can be at ease with uncertainty.
But what do we do instead? We buy insurance. Every kind of insurance. Our dislike for uncertainty is big business.
That said, there will always be are a select group of people that will swim against the tide. And wether or not you belong to this subset of humankind is a consequence of a few multivariate equations. The most conspicuous of them being how and where you grew up, how certain or uncertain the outcomes of your actions were, and how your reward history looked like versus other men of your time.
I will talk more later. or maybe not.
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