I decided to be original and instead of finding the dictionary/Wikipedia definition of risk, I am going to write about the board game risk. I can hear it already... "That was not what I meant when I said write about risk!" too bad, Risk is a game I know and love which actually (not very surprisingly) involves quite a bit of risk and luck to be able to win. However the reason I chose to talk about the game Risk is that succeeding at Risk not only takes luck, but also takes quite a bit of skill. You need to know where to put your pieces in the beginning of the game. You need to come up with a strategic plan to keep gaining cards to get more troops and you need to analyze the risks of attacking at certain points in the game. But lets look back at the skill involved while taking a risk. Any high school athlete who chooses to slack off in the classroom and try to get into college and make a living through the sport is taking a risk, but you have to have skill in order for you to even have a chance to make it into the pros, or even college purely off of athletic excellence. The same thing is true for most things you have to take a risk to achieve.
So I guess that is how you decided when to take the risk. Make a honest, true, assessment of your skill, and if you decide the possible outcomes are worth the risk, are worth the chance of failure, then you should take it. If you decide you don't have the skill, or the outcomes are not worth the risk, then it's time to re-evaluate the situation and choose a new course of action.
And btw Packers lost :( oh well
Superbowl XLV, here we come
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