Every human has risk taking behavior, but not on the external factors but it is innate.
If we are to learn something, we have to take risks. If we want something, we have to take risks. There would have been no USA today if nobody had dared to venture out and thus discovered the new world. There would not be Space-shuttles or Airbus-380 if everybody had played it safe on the ground. We would not have any friends if we had not taken the risks of reaching out to other people and maybe have got rejected in return. Because of these reasons, it is easy to think because we are risk taker, we got many things. However did you know that we are naturally born to be a risk taker? We are not taking risks again and again because we know the incentives that comes along with taking risks. We are just born to take risks.
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Everyday we take risks. Risk is, by nature, a scary thing. We can't predict the results and most of the times is is uncertain. There are possibility to lose something that you think most preciously. You risk criticism and humiliation. You're giving up what you know for what might be. The rewards can be great, but so can the cost. But when we are to choose whether to take risks, we usually take them. It is becuase we get many benefits from it. However there are something bigger than that why we take risks. So to speak, we are born to take risks. Many studies have suggested that every human are risk takers by nature. The study got through an experiment and found out that when we get rewarded for a risk taking behavior, endorphin which is a kind of hormone secreting in our brain so that we are more obsessed to repeat such actions. Also the genetic makeup works in this place that it is likely that the son of the risk taker take another risk. And the mind offers an equally compelling reason why people do risk things. Also socialist, Sigmund Freud, insisted that it is important to note that we cannot reasonably divide the population into risk takers and risk avoiders. All people will both seek risk and avoid risk at different points in their lives. But one thing we need to consider is we must be risk takers. Sociologists and other experts believe that these very basic personality types evolved eons.
If people ignore my opinion then they will finish their lifes without recognizing every their risk taking behavior is out of by nature, and think they have lived their life meaningless and keep looking at those risk taker as a strange or surprising aboriginal thing, then, even though we have much more space to evolve and make a wonderful history, we will remain still leaving our wonderful characteristic unnecessary thing.
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Endorphin gives us a strong reason why risk taking behavior is innate. Endorphin is what the brain releases in response to imminent physical danger. One neurobiologist, Candace Pert, discovered that endorphins enable us to balance the rush of adrenaline that flows into our bloodstreams during dangerous moments with cool, calm thinking and an ability to give undivided attention to crucial matters despite the surrounding chaos. Also Pert believes that greater sensitivity to endorphins gave certain early humans a survival advantage, and this made sure the succedding of the genes to the other generation.
Early human risk takers were probably more likely to wander off established trails, possibly finding a new source of water or game. Such individuals might also have risked being seen as different in order to invent a new kind of weapon or animal trap, or to try eating a new plant or other potential food item. These acts would have triggered a pleasurable excitement in the risk taker, but might also have profoundly benefited his or her group.
Because of the ancestor's genes have succeeded to our generation, in this modern life, we are taking a lot of risks that are adapted to our situation and also the desire for such action still runs strong in our genetic makeup. Also the convincing reason of the continuation of the genetic characteristics is that the positive reinforcement is given to risk taker. This trait is strengthened by the societies.
There are many who still believes risk taking is unique trait only a minority of people share. However, as the evidence tells us, risk taking trait is not what our generation has made or created but it is succeeded to our society without discontinuance. We are mentally and psychologically born as a risk taker by our ancestors and perhaps we are physically made to take risk. Thus every human is a risk taker by nature.
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There are plenty of people who deny my opinion since mine is not popular one though correct. Those people who refute my opinion take examples such as 'Dr. Martin Lalumière', 'teens taking risks', which are incorrect. Dr. Martin Lalumière insists that social constructions(external factors) such as systemic inequality and competitive disadvantage facilitate risk taking which can be thought as making my opinion weaker. However, Sigmund Freud's said, risk taking is human's innate personality. The thing that we are innate risk takers is not changing. Maybe, because we are risk taker we can step even further step to the equality.
Also, people on the opposite side of me uses example about teens who are taking more extreme risks even frequently based on the environmental surroundings such as peer pressure and other's eye to refute my opinion. However, teens can't be considered in the category of the adults since the pre-frontal cortex develops later than the amygdala. As teens want to experience new things, the under developed brain, pre-frontal cortex, has trouble controlling their impulse to take risks lacking the understanding the consequences of their actions. Teens rather respond on impulse than considering the ultimate consequences of their decision. If they grow big enough to think as much as adults do with conscious
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When living our lives, sometimes, we may be shy to do something extreme or maybe the eyes of the other people would look you as a strange person so that you can't take a further step to advance that involves risk taking. However, don't forget to know that every people do have risk taking behaviors. Maybe there might be no other common thing than this in the world. The chemical thing called Endorphin supports strongly that we are a risk taker. Also this kind of trait was shown on our ancestors too. We are now in the middle of risk taking. And It is not what you can and cannot do. You are born to be a risk taker because every little thing contains risks. Think about it. If there were no risk taking behaviors then how could we be born in this world, what if our mom and dad did not determine to marry which is part of taking risk. We are now making our own world because of the trait that every human being shares, risk taking.
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