Take the Risk: Learning to Identity, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk

NO RISK, PAY THE COST. KNOW RISK, REAP THE REWARDS.

IN OUR RISK-AVOIDANCE CULTURE, we place a high premium on safety. We insure our vacations. We check crash tests on cars. We extend the warranties on our appliances.

But by insulating ourselves from the unknown —the risks of life — we miss the great adventure of living our lives to their full potential.

Ben Carson spent his childhood as an at-risk child on the streets of Detroit, and today he takes daily risks in performing complex surgeries on the brain and the spinal cord Now, offering inspiring personal examples, Dr. Carson invites us to embrace risk in our own lives. From a man whose life dramatically portrays the connection between great risks and greater successes, here are insights that will help you dispel your fear of risk so you can dream big, aim high, move with confidence, and reap rewards you've never imagined.

DR. BENJAMIN CARSON is a professor of neurosurgery, plastic surgery, oncology, and pediatrics; the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; and a bestselling author.

GREGG LEWIS is an award-winning author and coauthor of more than fifty books, including The Big Picture with Dr. Ben Carson.

"Ben combines terrific storytelling skills with great research into the nature and form that risk takes in our world.

Through his own life experiences, he reminds us that no life is without risk - and offers a simple and surprisingly effective way to live comfortably with that fact. Read Ben's advice, and you won't just be more willing to accept risk, you'll want to embrace it as something that can make your life better and more fulfilling."

-George Lucas, director, producer, and screenwriter for films including the epic Star Wars saga and Indiana

Jones franchise.

To get the great rewards in life, you have to master taking great (calculated) risks. My dear friend, Dr. Carson, invites you to learn, understand, and master risks so you realize, energize, and fully potentialize your value to yourself, your life, your future, and the marketplace.

— Mark Victor Hansen

Cocreator, #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul®

Author: Ben Carson