People who enjoy taking risks may be more content and satisfied with their lives.
A new study shows that a willingness to take risks is not only linked to personal satisfaction, but it also may be related to a person's age, sex, and even their height.
German researchers surveyed more than 20,000 people about their risky behavior and found:
- Tall people are more prepared to take risks than short people.
- Women take fewer risks than men.
- Willingness to take risk decreases dramatically with age.
Which Comes First?
But researchers say it's the link between a willingness to take risks and personal satisfaction that's the most difficult to interpret.
"It's a classic chicken and the egg problem," researcher Armin Falk, of the Institute for the Study of Labor and the University of Bonn, says in a news release. "Are people who are satisfied more optimistic because they are satisfied and thus more ready to take risks? Or is someone who is not afraid of risks a person who takes their life into their own hands and shapes it the way they want to?"
Risky Business
In the study, researchers interviewed more than 20,000 people about their willingness to take risks, as well as conducted a risk-taking experiment to test the survey results... (continues)
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And on another matter of interest:...why double standards around racism simply don’t exist, like: Why a show titled “Dear Black People” would be offensive, why the n-word is off-limits to white but not black people; Why minority-focused spaces like HuffPost Black Voices exist but HuffPost White Voices does not; and why there’s simply no such thing as reverse racism.
First things first, I agree ! I think people who are more adventurous and like to take risks could live happier lives because they do not wake up with a What if?
ReplyDeleteIn reply to the double standards, Tyler works in police force (kinda) and to have a conversation with him, being not only black but being pro-black it was very interesting. We learn that sometimes people are just ignorant to the world around them because they have not been educated. It is also interesting to see the other side and how they feel about it. What is going on in the world with BLM and police brutality is something that can only be changed by inflicting content on one persons mind at a time.