When it comes to this aspect obviously I’m very biased. Security as such is a concept totally strange to me, even more so since I left the safe, welfare world of (Western) Europe behind and moved to a Development nation in Asia.
Then again, I always have been a totally autonomous risk taker and never wanted to rely on any safety net. Because #YOLO, as the hipsters of this Millenium so eloquently say.
In fact, I believe in failing forward and have more than once guest lectured, or spoken at student events, and promoted the thought of becoming a startupper and taking risks. Risks while one still can, while there’s no offspring (yet) or other obligations.
Because, who knows who’s the next lotto winner. It could be you, right?
As such, the sky is but the beginning in my book. It has also served me rather well. CEO of more than 40 employees before 30, before that an own bar, an international career in Internet security, and most of all worked in/from 7 countries by now and visited close to 50.
Prolific writer @tarazkp explains why many humans take a different approach and prefer a stable, more secure situation in his In for a Rough Ride post:
It is about the emotionally stable part and the willingness to cap a low ceiling average rather than a sky's the limit approach. This is very human, it is the way we are programmed. We are hardwired to search for security and once we 'have it', we get comfortable very quickly indeed.
When it comes to being objective with ourselves, we are also flawed as we overemphasise our good moves and underweigh our poor. We feel that we are pushing hard even if we are doing the average, doing what everyone else is doing.
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#flearn and failing forward are two of my mantras in life. They’ve made me, not broken me, even though the rides have often been tough. But who doesn’t love a good roller coaster?
Security offers safety but often sucks the impetus to jump in and take risks, and once there is a reliance on the consistency of support or income, one builds life around it. This means that in order to change, one must risk what one has, a challenge when one is comfortable.
If currently you’re feeling comfortable, please take some time to consider the upcoming singularity and how AI will affect our future, especially professionally.
AlphaGo’s historic victory is a clear signal that we’ve gone from linear to parabolic. Advances in technology are now so visibly exponential in nature that we can expect to see a lot more milestones being crossed long before we would otherwise expect. These exponential advances, most notably in forms of artificial intelligence limited to specific tasks, we are entirely unprepared for as long as we continue to insist upon employment as our primary source of income. [Source: Scott Santens, Basic Income]
Read @tarazkp’s In for a Rough Ride.
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