Worth the Risk: The Seven Myths That Keep Us From Taking the Chances We Need to Take

"There has never been a better time to be a risk-taker; and yet as a society we have never been more risk averse. Throughout history, risk has been critical for success and flourishing, from early innovators to immigrants and others who faced difficult journeys in pursuit of a better life, to the merchants and small business owners who established a durable middle class in America and abroad. But we don't take these kinds of risks anymore. The level of caution we practice, be it in the economic realm, our personal and work relationships, or how we parent, would have been unthinkable and virtually impossible just one hundred years ago, even as our society as a whole has gotten safer and our ability to bear risk has never been better. Allison Schrager argues that our overall level of risk aversion has come at a steep cost to our economy, our future, and our mental health. Allison Schrager's book will debunk 7 myths about risk-such as we're bad at risk-taking; that the world has never been riskier; that risk is only for the rich-and give readers the tools to better understand and gauge their own risk tolerance and make smarter risk decisions"--