Are You Afraid to Take Risks?

[Jaguar]

Now that the nonsense is over, I'll say it again: Heaven forbid someone consider neurotransmitters.

 

[Tellenbach]

I've avoided multiple career paths because I didn't want to risk accidentally killing someone. My idea of spontaneity is ordering the pulled pork sammich at Subway on a whim.

 

[Mal12345]

I've avoided multiple career paths because I didn't want to risk accidentally killing someone. My idea of spontaneity is ordering the pulled pork sammich at Subway on a whim.

It's because of your neurotransmitters.

 

[Tellenbach]

One can never discount the power of neurotransmitters.

 

[OrangeAppled]

Yes, with the exception of emotional risks. I avoid putting myself into situations which could lead to a personal rejection.

I take risks in most other areas and never really saw it that way until others pointed it out. I'm not very security driven at all. Stability can bore me. Routine is suffocating. There is enough drive for novelty and freedom and experimentation to trump my shyness and sensitivity. But I'm too concerned with moral concepts to ever be really crazy. I'd say I'm conservative and cautious in moral issues, and some if that is avoiding needless offense of others, aka I consider other's feelings.

I think this can appear unpredictable and inconsistent on the outside, but it's pretty consistent if you know the place it's coming from.

 

[Riva]

^

I'm not very security driven at all.

SP dom?

 

[Qlip]

We all risk all of the time. It's always weighing the risk of loss of what you have and the risk loss of what could be. Ne'doms know this. I'll do some crazy things to not risk losing things that I think are worth it, or gaining a vantage of possibility. From somebody who doesn't understand how I value things, I could be seen as a heavy risk taker.

 

[small.wonder]

I've realized with age that I take too many risks, but usually unconsciously. Two recent examples:

1) I got on the Metra without a ticket and no cash for the third time this year. The first two times I had enough change to pay for my ticket (for real.) and the third, I miraculously found an old ten ride for another line in my wallet that they accepted! Anyway, obvious lack of self preservation instincts, sheesh.

2) I had planned to go for a walk at a Forest Preserve with a friend on Saturday, but Friday night I started feeling sick. Saturday morning comes and I'm thoroughly ill, fever, tightness in the chest, coughing, sinus pain, etc. I almost forgot I was supposed to meet my friend, but remembered like an hour before and didn't want to cancel on her because I hate it when people do that to me. So I go, as soon as I get there the sky looks like rain-- but I love rain and storms, especially in the summer and just the way the air feels before one. Caught up in that feeling, I don't think I really thought about rain + sick. Okay, I didn't at all. About halfway around one of the circut paths, the wind picks up and the sky opens up and at first I was euphoric (because, as I said, I have a thing with storms) which sustained all the way back to our cars. I don't think the "you stupid idiot", of my own judgement really hit me until I was driving home sopping wet with a fever and chills. *headdesk*

I don't know that I associate my tendency to take risks with MBTI at all though, more with my instinctual variants.

That said, I am not a social risk taker at all.

 

[INTP]

In some situations yes, in some situations no. Just like everyone else

 

[Honor]

I have a very similar attitude.

 

[skylights]

I feel kind of in the middle. I prefer having some knowledge and preparation before jumping in, but I am also adventurous and exploratory as a general rule. I try to avoid the low-gain risks and capitalize on the risks that either protect my values or are likely to lead to a breathtaking experience (standing up to mistreatment at work being an example of the former; learning and going scuba diving on the fly one day being an example of the latter - and sex without a partner's clean bill of health being a risk I just don't feel is worth taking).

 

[Kullervo]

And so IXXPs are the perfect balance?

I'm not so sure about that. You are probably talking about IxFPs more here.

 

[Bush]

Irrational perceiving, when dominant, brings a great degree of spontaneity, and perhaps an aura of danger, to the personality. In practice, such people are thought to lack judgment. But rational judging can seem too controlling because it sets cogent and judicious limits on spontaneity. They are considered "party-poopers" by the Irrational types because they use too much judgment.

Hell, this absolutely makes sense to me. Risk-seeking may be seen as 'lacking judgment' by the risk-averse, who may in turn be seen as 'too controlled' by the risk-seekers.

 

[Mal12345]

Hell, this absolutely makes sense to me. Risk-seeking may be seen as 'lacking judgment' by the risk-averse, who may in turn be seen as 'too controlled' by the risk-seekers.

It makes common-sense. The interesting part is how this correlates with Jungian functions.

 

[Bush]

It makes common-sense. The interesting part is how this correlates with Jungian functions.

I'm a fan of bringing common sense to conscious light as a reminder. But I do find the correlation with Pe/Pi-dominance to be a neat idea.

In your mind, would Ji/Je-doms (who are thus Pe/Pi secondaries) exhibit similar tendencies as their Pe/Pi-dom brethren? How does the function stacking affect risk-seeking/aversion--would having Px in a secondary position lessen the degree to which those tendencies exist?

 

[RedAmazoneFriendZone]

I'm probably growing old, I am not the famous ENTP risk taker that my surrounding used to know

The more I grow old the wiser I become : I try to think before acting to avoid losing my energy with the wrong persons for example...

And I tend to develop my intuition more and more...


I used to take many risks in relationships as well as for/in my jobs.

Psychologically I am quite grounded so I don't need them to feel alright with myself.



I am a risk taker for others because I don't give a damn about rules, because a good rule is one which is truly necessary...etc.


Physically speaking, for some women, I am a risk taker : I am rather outgoing, and always very curious.
But what they forgot is that if I think "I'm not going out alone at 3 o'clock alone" I don't feel free anymore.
So I'm a risk walker


Life is a risk in itself, and the pleasure to be alive is probably to feel good without too much worry.

I'd like to be a risk taker with emotions, but I still have to work on them.
I'm not usually lazy, but on this subject.... oh god !

 

[childofprodigy]

I control risk.

No profit can be acquired without taking some degree of risk hence risk taking is paramount if you wanna make shitload of money...On the other hand, overleverage can make your net worth crash and burn quickly hence a certain balance must be struck between profit chasing and loss avoidance in order to build long term wealth...

In general, if the Expected Value of a certain risky action X is positive, I would then take the risk and pull the trigger. Otherwise if the Expected Value is zero or negative, I'm not going to bother....

I'm not gonna have precise expected value numbers for all scenario, but it's easy to intuitively make an educated guess/to quickly estimate the expected value of most scenarios I encounter....

 

[johnnyyukon]

I control risk.

I call B.S.




I am probably too risky. In all things. It may catch up to me.

However, they're calculated, and I must not be a moron, because even though I'm proficient in about 15 extreme sports, I've never broken a bone. I lied, my pinkie toe once walking barefoot to the mailbox.

But as [MENTION=22064]ExNinjaTropPervertie[/MENTION] said, as I've gotten a little older, for BIG decisions (moving, career, women, etc.), sometimes I'm almost paralyzed to make a choice. It doesn't last long, but your "do-overs" get less and less.

 

[childofprodigy]

I call B.S.

 

[johnnyyukon]

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Ha, shun away. But it wouldn't be called "risk" if you could control it.