Comments on: Risque

By: chris jaquess

chris jaquess — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Tara,
Are you a ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ fan?
They do a very interesting episode about this very issue.
Captain Picard is confronted by ‘Q’ about his regrets of his choices as a youth. So, ‘Q’ gives Picard a chance to relive his youth with all the wisdom of his years. As he relives his days as a cadet, he doesn’t take the risks he did when he was younger. He doesn’t suffer the ill affects of those risks, but neither does he gain those advantages he held dear either. Especially one, because he wasn’t a risk taker. Because he was smart and careful, he became a mid-level science officer instead of the Captain of the Enterprise.
Anyway, if you get a chance to rent the episode and watch it, do. Very enlightening. I don’t remember the name of the episode, but some ‘trekky’ will.
Sometimes we examine events that we perceive as disadvantageous too closely and resolve to act differently in a similar situation. Experience is the best teacher, but the hard part is determining the lesson actually being taught. Maybe it wasn’t about taking risks, you just needed a little time to sit down and reflect?!?

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Just in case you had doubts… I have no regrets. And as for “changing” the past, I’m not that kind of person ; ) - all I have lived through has contibuted to bringing me where I am, and I would not want to be elsewhere for anything in the whole world. Looking back, I wouldn’t want to change a single thing.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Enjoyed this one, but your conclusion left me somewhat hanging. Is this something you would do again? How does one quantify the probability vs. severity of something happening during a situation?
Alex

By: Vincent

Vincent — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Suite du cours de gestion du risque, la notion d’acceptabilité du risque.
Plus la latitude d’une personne sur le risque est grande (choix de l’exposition) plus elle aura tendance à s’exposer à des risques prononcés (ex. sports extrêmes). Des risques de blessure moindre que le Judo ne sont pas acceptés à la place de travail car ici la latitude y est moindre.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Alex,
As Vincent adds, there is something very subjective about all this. For my personal little self, the risk of concussion or severe injury that I do run while doing judo is acceptable.
To answer your immediate question, I don’t look back on this “accident” thinking that I made a mistake to be still taking my judo classes two months before my exams.
What my conclusion meant to show was that even when the probability of something is rather low, it can happen. There wasn’t really much more to it.