Have a look at the 1-10 scale below. How much of a risk taker are you?

Question

1. Get out of bed in the mornings
2. Travel a different way to work.
3. Try something different next time you order.
4. Tell your boss what you really think.
5. Go bungy-jumping/ parachuting etc.
6. Risk your reputation by following your idea, instinct or intuition.
7. Risk a friendship by being honest about a fault in a close friend.
8. Risk being unpopular by sticking to an unpleasant but necessary decision you've made.
9. 'Jack' your perfectly respectable (but boring) job in for a great adventure.
10. Risk being misunderstood or even shunned by being true to your own principles/faith etc.

This is just my guideline and is ofcourse highly subjective.
You may consider completely different things/situations to be a higher risk.
Please indulge me by rating yourself between 1-10, and tell us a risk taking experience of yours. The most interesting answer, with the most thumbs up will get best answer. (Cheers)

Answer 1

Hey J, is this list all your own idea? Well done if it is! To adress these individually:-

1. Always do otherwise nothing gets done.

2. There are only two routes to work one of which tests the suspension on the car!

3.Always try to especially at a restaurant whithin the bounds of the menu.

4. Could not do that. Lose job otherwise and I'm the only income to the house.

5. I'd be scarred stiff!

6. A reptuation is a tricky thing to keep especally if it's a good one also depends if your idea is good. Run it by the boss first.

7. My friend is always honest with me. Too honest sometimes but can't take it if I'm honest.

8.Can't remember making such a decision.

9. Don't think my job is boring. I'm an anaesthetic nurse.

10. I think I'm there already.

Answer 2

I guess i would be a 10 and you can believe that or not. I think that everyone should be them self's and do what they need to do. If people don't understand that then they live in a box and don't understand you. I dot think necessarily the rick a friendship because of telling them of a fault they have. I think being honest can be a catch 22 and that there are some things better left unsaid. If you really feel the need to tell them then yes Tell them but do it in a way not to offend them and if it goes bad then so be it. I do strongly believe it being yourself no matter what!

Good Q by the way!

Answer 3

Level 10 and 9 describe my approach to life.



I spent 20 years searching for a lost gold mine [while holding a respectable career job]



At the age of 50 I knew my life wasn't what I wanted it to be. So I dropped the career and 25 year marriage and began another career 600 miles away.

[Still searching for the lost gold mine]



1999, I left the second career, cashed in all retirement, bought land, built a cabin in a remote place. Waited for Y2K to happen, or not happen.



Spent 14-16 months until forced to move to town when I discovered rodents had shredded what was left of my retirement money.



No regrets, though the aftermath's been a series of unanticipated adventures and growth experiences.



The part you described as level 10 describes the other major part of my character. Being misunderstood isn't a concern. I live as I wish to live, believe as I wish to beieve without regard to the opinions and beliefs of others.

Answer 4

well i'm 6 out of 10! so i guess according to your scale i'm a risk taker! as a matter of fact i just recently told a co-worker what i thought. she's been going through a divorce and a mutual friend told me something in confidence that was gonna happen with the divorce. she came into work to let the 3 people involved in the upcoming events that i already new about, and me being one of the three people. when she found out i already knew and didn't forwarn her, she was pissed. being her friend she felt i should of told her ahead of time. i told her that you can't pick and choose what confidences to keep, and she just don't get it. somehow i'm the villain in all this for keeping a promise, and i really don't care!♥

Answer 5

I would personally rate myself a 10. Although I have never been in such a situation, I would hope and pray that if put in that situation I would be strong enough to risk being shunned for my principles.

Answer 6

Well i would do no 10

And it looks like I may have to do no 6 (personally I would give it more than 6, I will be risking my chances of a career as well)

Answer 7

i comprehend i seem solid yet i do no longer desire to look over the genuine so i will say a 9. i've got no issues in that section and that i'm confident it wouldnt hardship me if somebody reported as me grotesque the two. in no way had anybody tell me earlier.

Answer 8

Just getting out of bed on a morning is a big deal for me at the moment.





:-)))

Answer 9

hi pal

well 4 me i tried only 6 outta it sincerly

bye

hey are u doing any kinda polling stuff!!

Answer 10

10 i did that and i wasent shunned

ehh i went punk