Scott Kress on the Summit of Mount Everest
Many of our programs encourage people to get outside their comfort zones in relation to communication, leadership, change and team work. Any time one steps out of their comfort zone they are taking a tisk. this risk could be big or small, but if you do not see the reward involved it will be difficult to take that risk. Below is a poem that I think speaks well to the rewards of risk.
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out to another is to risk involvement
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return
To live is to risk dying
To hope is to risk despair
to try is to risk failure
But the risk must be taken
Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing
The person who risks nothing
Does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing
S/he may avoid suffering and sorrow
But s/he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live
Chained by certitudes, they are slaves
They have forfeited freedom
Only a person who risks – is Free
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