Comments on: Security is for Cowards http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/ Personal Development for Smart People Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:54:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1245 John Wed, 09 Mar 2005 17:26:14 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1245 A precision to my precedent comment. Risk is also onimpresent in business. Without taking risk at all, you get nothing. Some take too many risks and some, not enough. It is important to know that the risk co-exist with action. Some wants to act only if the risk is null. Otherwise, they are paralysed. So, they will never act. Each act as a part of risk. When you understand this paradigm, you can manage the risk. What are the risks if you fail? What are the benefit if you succeed? You just have to balance this two aspects and take a decision. If you can support the risk of failing, so you can act, you must act. A precision to my precedent comment.

Risk is also onimpresent in business.

Without taking risk at all, you get nothing.

Some take too many risks and some, not enough.

It is important to know that the risk co-exist with action. Some wants to act only if the risk is null. Otherwise, they are paralysed. So, they will never act. Each act as a part of risk.

When you understand this paradigm, you can manage the risk. What are the risks if you fail? What are the benefit if you succeed?

You just have to balance this two aspects and take a decision. If you can support the risk of failing, so you can act, you must act.

]]> By: John http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1244 John Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:58:00 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1244 It is important to manage the risk. Only a stupid guy could take a risk without evaluating consequences In big business, risk management is omnipresent. It is important to manage the risk.

Only a stupid guy could take a risk without evaluating consequences

In big business, risk management is omnipresent.

]]> By: Paul http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1239 Paul Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:26:16 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1239 Sorry about the double posting - I didn't think the first comment sent, feel free to delete it. I was cautious in that I waited until I was sure I had the job before I moved, but I still wasn't sure what it would be like living in a big city having never lived in one before. I guess it was an intelligent risk, I believed I could do it while knowing there was a chance I might fail. Sorry about the double posting - I didn’t think the first comment sent, feel free to delete it.

I was cautious in that I waited until I was sure I had the job before I moved, but I still wasn’t sure what it would be like living in a big city having never lived in one before. I guess it was an intelligent risk, I believed I could do it while knowing there was a chance I might fail.

]]> By: MX http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1238 MX Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:58:25 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1238 If you ask "what qualifies as risk", sorry to put it bluntly, then you don't understand the article. In my opinion the article doesn't say "take any risk, for the sake of risk". The article says something like: Try to accomplish something significant for you or for others. Even if there are risks involved, don't let this stop you. Don't get caught in the routine of life, don't let yourself become numb - work on significant tings, and take risks for this. If you ask “what qualifies as risk”, sorry to put it bluntly, then you don’t understand the article. In my opinion the article doesn’t say “take any risk, for the sake of risk”.

The article says something like:

Try to accomplish something significant for you or for others. Even if there are risks involved, don’t let this stop you. Don’t get caught in the routine of life, don’t let yourself become numb - work on significant tings, and take risks for this.

]]> By: Steve Pavlina http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1237 Steve Pavlina Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:23:42 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1237 You tell me. Was it an intelligent risk for you (i.e. not overly cautious on the one side or overly reckless on the other)? You tell me. Was it an intelligent risk for you (i.e. not overly cautious on the one side or overly reckless on the other)?

]]> By: Paul http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1234 Paul Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:07:56 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1234 Ok... I clicked 'Say It' and it didn't do anything :S What risks are we talking about? What classifies a risk? I just turned 18 and moved to a capital city far away from where I grew up, to work as a trainee programmer. I went from living with my parents out in the country to living by myself in a big city in my own place. But I secured the job first before coming up, so would that be classified as a risk? Am I a coward? Ok… I clicked ‘Say It’ and it didn’t do anything :S

What risks are we talking about? What classifies a risk?

I just turned 18 and moved to a capital city far away from where I grew up, to work as a trainee programmer. I went from living with my parents out in the country to living by myself in a big city in my own place. But I secured the job first before coming up, so would that be classified as a risk? Am I a coward?

]]> By: Paul http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1233 Paul Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:04:59 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1233 What things would you class as risk? Would say turning 18, moving away from home to start work as a software developer on the other side of the country, getting your own apartment and taking care of yourself be classified as a risk? What if you secure the job first before moving - is that still living in 'security'? Or are we talking more about BIG risks, like just going to another country with no idea what you are going to do when you get there (and you already had a good life at home). Is that taking risks, or is it being foolish? What things would you class as risk?

Would say turning 18, moving away from home to start work as a software developer on the other side of the country, getting your own apartment and taking care of yourself be classified as a risk? What if you secure the job first before moving - is that still living in ’security’?

Or are we talking more about BIG risks, like just going to another country with no idea what you are going to do when you get there (and you already had a good life at home). Is that taking risks, or is it being foolish?

]]> By: Aaron F Stanton http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1232 Aaron F Stanton Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:11:17 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/03/security-is-for-cowards/#comment-1232 and yet...he blew his head off. I'm not saying his essay is wrong, but put in the context of what he did 50 years after he wrote it, it kinda makes you think. Maybe he realized he had stopped truly living a while ago and just decided to go ahead and finish the job? We'll never really know. and yet…he blew his head off.

I’m not saying his essay is wrong, but put in the context of what he did 50 years after he wrote it, it kinda makes you think. Maybe he realized he had stopped truly living a while ago and just decided to go ahead and finish the job?

We’ll never really know.

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