ENTP'S maybe but ENFP'S are not risk takers!
I'm not anyway.
Try telling that to my ENFP brother, who drives around as though he were on an F1 circuit!!!
I'm also a big risk taker. For the adrenaline, the challenge, and the nonchalant look I can give to the cautious ones who lecture me beforehand, when it pays off with no harm done despite all their protestations.
Truth is, I don't actually consider a lot of the stuff I do as risk taking, that other people do. They think it's terribly risky because they'd never do it, never have done it, and don't really know from experience the true risk level. Some people seem to think that disobeying The Law will result in being smote down by a lightning bolt from heaven, and this blinds them to being able to assess the true risk factor. When it's something I've done before and am completely confident about, I know with a sorta secret insider info type of thing, that the risk isn't as high as they think. I try to tell them, but they don't listen. When I pull it off every time, they stand in shock and awe, and I'm just like
Most of the risks I take are to do with legal things or just corner cutting with procedures, or perhaps confronting or otherwise subverting the powers that be, either immediate or remote (managers, city counsellors or governments). I take some physical risks too, and some things that are a combination of all, such as driving an illegal car to a place where I go trespassing on private land/property to explore a derelict/ruined building that's falling to pieces, with DANGER signs everywhere. But in that case, I've carefully (and correctly) assessed the situation and decided that the likelihood of anyone being harmed or caught by the law is negligible.
My brother and I both very frequently take 'lack of forward planning' types of risks, such as making a long journey to a random place with camping gear in the car and kids, with no money on us, trusting that we'll be able to find somewhere to camp out and a way to get money and food en route, that kinda thing, where other people say we're reckless and irresponsible, but we just frown with incomprehension because we've NEVER GONE WRONG YET, as opposed to the people who lecture us, who frequently encounter problems that freak them out, despite all their careful planning.
It frustrates me a heck of a lot though, when that simple fact - the fact that I've never led them wrong in many years - never seems to register as a reason to ffs trust me!!
INTJMom - I might tentatively hypothesize that perhaps N's are bigger risk takers in the legal/abstract way, whilst perhaps S's have the prize with risks in the physical way...??
My ISTP friend is very safety conscious though... I have an old car that has no rear seat belts and doesn't require them by law because of its classic/vintage car status legally. He won't travel in the back of the car (and no it's not because of my driving!! lol). He also won't ride his bike if there's even a minor fault. Whenever he does handy jobs for me he's always the only one wearing the goggles and protective gloves etc., though maybe he just likes doing that for the image! lol