Seth’s World View

Gail Sheehy illuminated the rewards of risk-taking in her book Pathfinders. Sheehy began her research looking for the secrets of truly contented people. She wondered what made these people feel such as sense of well-being. Sheehy learned that “people of high well-being” shared just a few traits, and this was one:
They all had taken an enormous risk.

Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
Harry Beckwith

That seems to fly in the face of everything I’ve ever heard about contentment, yet I think I agree with it.