“You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.” ShouldPastFacesMovingBrainRiskMonthsBehaviorResearchProgramPermanentTriggersWill PowerLikelihoodRelapseHigh RiskPermanent Change Book:Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions Source: Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions
“Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.” GivenAbilityRiskWillingOffersBehaviorCapableConsequenceGuaranteesCourageousWillingnessRisk-takingAdverse Author:Alfred Adler
“If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.” PeopleIfsFeelsSexRiskGenerationsGroupsDiseaseBehaviorResponseSpreadViolentPeersPeer GroupViolent Acts Author:Steven James
“Leading with character gives the wise leader clear-cut advantages. They are easier to trust and follow; they honor commitments and promises; their words and behavior match; they are always engaged in and by the world; they are open to "reflective backtalk": they can speak with conviction because they believe in what they are saying...and everyone else knows that. They are comfortable in their own skin. They feel at ease in the spotlight and they enjoy it there. They tend to be more receptive to opportunity and risk.” KnowsWorldGivingFeelsBelieveCharacterOpportunitySpeakEnjoyLeaderClearWiseCuttingRiskHonorEasierPromiseBehaviorComfortableCommitmentAdvantageSkinsConvictionEaseEngagedSpotlightReceptiveWise Leaders Author:Warren G. Bennis
“Drunk driving contains a far greater risk of violent death than the use or sale of illegal drugs, the societal response to drunk drivers has generally emphasized keeping the person functional and in society, while attempting to respond to the dangerous behavior through treatment and counseling.” PersonsUseGreaterRiskDangerousDrugBehaviorResponseDrivingViolentDrunkTreatmentIllegalDriversAttemptingCounselingIllegal DrugsViolent DeathDrunk Driving Author:Michelle Alexander
“I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost the antithesis of the American character of generosity, of charity, of welcoming, of helping, of taking risks. You think of the lives that were expended in World War I and World War II to help others, and they say now we'll draw up the bridge and we'll protect ourselves. We won't have a broader role in humanity.” ThinkingWorldWarCharacterHelpingHumanityPresidentRiskPolicyRepublicanProtectBehaviorCharityHelping OthersUnhappyWelcomeGenerosityWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War ITaking RisksAntithesis Author:Les Wexner
“I think I'm determined. And I think if you're determined, you're right. Your behavior is exactly the same when you're stubborn, except then you're wrong. And so, there's times when I'm wrong, and I'd say, "Well, you were the dark side of determined." But I think determination, you know, it's like have an idea, think about the idea, the risks involved. What does it take to get from here to there? And then once you make the choice, you just keep going.” ThinkingChoicesDarkRiskBehaviorDeterminationDeterminedKeep GoingStubbornDark Side Author:Les Wexner
“As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.” SportsKnownIssuesClearPlayerRiskFootballBecomingBehaviorSuicideMental HealthCriminalsFormerLeagueDementiaHealth IssuesCriminal Behavior Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.” TechnologyRiskBehaviorSmartAutonomyUnderminingUndesirableSuppressing Author:Evgeny Morozov
“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.” WayWantTryingI CanRiskBehaviorNew WaysTaking RisksBeing Myself Book:Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.” PeopleHumansSeemsDifficultChallengesEffortVirtueDoubtImpossibleRiskGroupsBehaviorExpectationsUnderstoodConsequenceTasksPerformancesImportanceConstantAccomplishDefinedAccomplishmentNo DoubtUnderestimateHuman BehaviorEarnestMundaneDiligencePrerequisitesDifficult ChallengesGreat Accomplishment Author:Atul Gawande