Illusion of Risk

Redditors are interested: how can I leave my job, how can I become an entrepreneur, how can I follow my dreams because there's so much risk. Well here's how I learned about risk. It was at a young age, I was lucky enough to go away to school, some people say I was an Anti-social malcontempt enough to go away to a private school but it was a very creative school and I took a class on entrepreneurial management or business development and risk. And the master, the teacher in the class started the class and the very first day we had a sign outside the door and the sign said "walk the plank" and what he had done, he had taken an 18" construction plank, like a scaffold plank and he had put it leading to his classroom door. So everyone, to get in the class we had to actually walk down the plank. The second week he had a sign up "hop down the plank" to get into class. So we hopped down the plank. The next week it was dance down the plank, then it was skip down the plank, then it was cartwheel down the plank. Week by week it was changing but it was fun for us and we didn't know where this was leading and actually we just thought the guy was a nut. So, the final week of class he took the plank - meanwhile, no one fell off the plank, no one had any difficulty at all - the final week he strung the plank between two, I think it was five feet ladders leading into the class, so in order to get into the class he had a sign "walk up the ladders, walk the plank, come into the class" and the bottom line is, is that after enjoying the plank for as many weeks as we did the same people who would take five seconds to walk the plank into class were taking 30 seconds and 45 seconds and a minute, some people had trouble even walking down the plank. Now remember, no one had fallen off but the idea is the plank is now off the ground so there's more implied risk walking down the plank even though logically or intellectually this had never affected anyone before and when the plank was on the ground no one had any difficulty. Well, the whole class was amazed and his whole final, the final session was simly about that illusion, and how the idea, just because the plank was off the ground that it was going to cause some sort of problem or dangerous situation, it was amazing to us and that stuck in my mind and I thank Mr. Moore to this day.