Susanna Fournier - Thought #2 - Practicing Risk

Like many people, most of my life I wanted to believe I was taking risks without having to experience any of the pretty horrifying emotions that come with actual risk. I was a full blown perfectionist til I was 29 and perfectionism doesn't allow for risk because it doesn't allow for failure. Like mass culture, I was all about the rhetoric of risk, but not the practice. Lately there's a lot of counter rhetoric around permitting failure – and I wonder how much, like risk, we talk about this while furiously making sure it never happens to us.