"All significant accomplishments require taking risks: the risk of failure in invention, exploration, or in love. We live in a society that is risk-adverse. Enormous time and energy is devoted to promoting "safety" in all we do. We are taught to buckle our seat belts, lock our doors, refrain from smoking, get an annual physical, and consult our doctors before exercise. We worry about weather, obsess about our children's security, live in houses with alarm systems, and arm ourselves against intruders,
"The risks that previous generations took for granted: childhood mortality, infectious disease, environmental catastrophe, are not things that now preoccupy most people."
-Gordon Livingston, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart
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