Fearlessness and success

At dinner, last night, my wife and I were talking about about fear, risk taking and success in life.

We kind of came to the conclusion that the meek were not quite inheriting the fair share of this terrestrial kingdom. It generally takes guts, tolerance for risk, multiple failures and aggressive perseverance to make it big in life.

We then reviewed people all around us, pegged a “risk-taking-grade” to each one of them and this concise exercise went a long way in confirming our assumptions...