Risk: We are constantly being told to look out for it, and for what I have gathered, outwardly, we have become very good at recognizing it. From insurance prevention and business management to investment analysis, scores of actuary estimations, compliance regulations and financial projections, are regularly adjusted to prognosticate the possibility of loss or damage, be it physical or financial. We are well rehearsed in knowing how to see external forces of harm or hazard for what they are, however, these factors only highlight the requirement of something being done to you. Risk – as it turns out – for it to be fully seen as what it is must be evaluated with an inner lens, that being said, many of us only accept risk as an act done to us by someone or something else rather than ever perceiving it with an internal perspective.

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