Increasing Your Capacity for Risk-Taking

The capacity to take risk is one of the biggest enablers of reaching your full potential and so we want to create a space where risk-takers can come together to talk about how they’ve developed their capacity for risk taking.

Mike Bancale

I once had to choose between keeping a stable job or investing my savings to open a restaurant with someone I didn’t know very well,
But I knew he had something I lacked—the ability to take risks. That stuck with me.
The thought of not doing it, of living with regret, felt worse than the idea of failing.
So I jumped in. Read More>>

Bell Caspi

I didn’t develop it because I’m fearless — I developed it because I had to. At some point, staying where I was felt more dangerous than stepping into the unknown.

When I left behind a familiar life to move countries and rebuild from scratch to chase a creative path, I had no guarantees. No safety net or resources. Just a passion, and the need to create something real on my own terms. That was my first big risk — and it hasn’t stopped since. Read More>>

Kiarash Dadgar

I think my ability to take risks developed from necessity as much as choice. Growing up in Iran, pursuing a career in the arts wasn’t the most secure or encouraged path, especially when the stories I wanted to tell challenged tradition or authority. But I realized early on that the only way for my voice to mean something was to use it fully — even when that came with personal or professional consequences. Read More>>

 

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