Right Risk: 10 Powerful Principles for Taking Giant Leaps With Your Life by Bill Treasurer

Author:Bill Treasurer [Treasurer, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-Help, Personal Growth, General
ISBN: 9781609943820
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Publisher: Berrett-Koehler
Published: 2003-07-03T23:42:03.524547+00:00

What Makes a Hero?

It is easiest to relish our giant leap moments when we know that our motives for taking the risk are “all true.” The word right—as in Right Risk—implies correct, of pure motive, and full of integrity. In short, right equates with true. When our motives are “all true,” much of our intrinsic satisfaction stems from knowing that we are operating out of our uncompromised, and therefore “truest,” self.

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Altruism is the purest form of Right Risk, and no one exemplifies this as much as the hero. It is not just the fact that heroes put themselves on the line, it is their motives for doing so. Interestingly, heroes do not share characteristics commonly assigned to risk-takers. Unlike people who take decidedly Wrong Risks, like substance abusers (who also put themselves on the line), heroes are not especially susceptible to boredom, emotionally arousable, disinhibited, or pleasure-seeking. Unlike, say, rock climbers, heroes are not particularly driven by the physiological thrills associated with cheating death. Rather, heroes are driven by something other. One study of police officers and firefighters who had been decorated for bravery showed that heroes actually scored lower on one of the most studied dimensions of risk-taking: sensation-seeking. It appears that heroes are merely ordinary people who put themselves in extraordinary situations. Why? For reasons described as “pro social” (for the good of others) and altruistic.7 Perhaps this is why, following a heroic episode, heroes often humbly explain, “I just did what I thought was right.”

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