How far do most people go to avoid risk? Too far, says Dr. Ben Carson. We buy insurance for everything from our vacations to our cell phones. We check crash tests on cars before buying one. We go on low-cholesterol diets and invest in low-risk mutual funds. And yet the only thing we know for sure is that our risk of dying is 100 percent, regardless of the security we seek.
Ben Carson spent his childhood as an at-risk child on the streets of Detroit, and he has lived his adult life taking daily risks in hundreds of complex surgeries on the brain and the spinal cord. This book offers his inspiring personal story of living with risk. It also provides his insights into risk avoidance and how it insulates us from achieving the full potential of our lives.
In Take the Risk! you?ll learn Carson's own method for sizing up and accepting appropriate risks. 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.
Benjamin S. Carson Carson is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School. He is director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.
