Chapter 14 Adventurous personality boosts your energy

To be successful, you need to be adventurous!Adventure is a part of our life, and there is no need to avoid it deliberately.Excessive fear will cause one's own depression and lack of self-confidence, making it difficult to taste the joy of success. It is impossible to be 100% sure of doing anything or completing any kind of work.Even in our daily life, there are always risks, but the probability of risk is different.As the saying goes, if you don't take risks, you will get nothing.Taking risks may lead to failure, but it will allow us to learn more experience. Only when we continue to try and fail, will there be more possibilities for success.

When I was on vacation in the Serengeti savannah in Africa, I sat by the river for 3 hours straight, watching how a small herd of wildebeest mustered the courage to go down to drink water.Every summer, millions of wildebeest migrate north from the arid Serengeti to the wetlands of the Masai Mara, and this group of wildebeest is part of the Great Migration. The Grumeti River is the only source of water during this arduous trek.The river, which intersects migratory routes, is both a hope of life and a symbol of death for wildebeest herds.Because wildebeests must drink river water to maintain their lives, but river water also nourishes other life, such as bushes, big trees and green grass on both sides, and bushes are also ideal places for beasts to hide.Braving the scorching sun, the thirsty wildebeest finally came to the river. The lion rushed out suddenly and threw the wildebeest to the ground.The surging herd of wildebeest kicked up dust covering the sky, blocking the sight of those wildebeest closest to the lion, and a killing was inevitable.

In places where the river is slow, there are many crocodiles hiding under the water, waiting for the wildebeest to come.One day I saw 28 crocodiles sharing an unfortunate wildebeest.Another day, a wildebeest escaped from a crocodile with a limp and bruises on one leg.Sometimes the rushing water is a danger in itself.The huge impact of the wildebeest herd pushed the leading wildebeest into the rapids, and either drowned or died in the mouth of the crocodile. On this day, the wildebeests came to a drinking river, and they seemed to know these terrible dangers well.The leading wildebeest walked slowly towards the river bank, and each wildebeest took a few steps hesitantly, sniffed, neighed, and retreated back in unison, advancing and retreating like dancing.The herd of wildebeests behind them smelled the breath of the water, and they rushed forward together, slowly pushing the "leaders" into the water, whether they wanted it or not.If the wildebeest have not had water for a long time, you can even feel their desperation, but the dance continues.

Finally, a little wildebeest "broke out" and began to drink the river water.Why did it dare to go into the water? Is it because it was young and ignorant, or because it was too thirsty?The big wildebeests still stopped in terror, until the wildebeest herd squeezed them into the water, and some wildebeests began to drink water.Soon, the raging wildebeest herd pushed a wildebeest into deep water, and it panicked, causing a riot among the wildebeest herd.They then quickly withdraw from the river and return to their migratory path.Only those wildebeest standing bravely in the front can drink water. Most of the wildebeest are either afraid or unable to get out of the encirclement, so they have to continue to suffer from thirst.Twice a day, wildebeest herds come to the river to repeat the ritual over and over again.One afternoon, I saw a small herd of wildebeest standing on a cliff overlooking the river below. About 100 meters upstream was level ground, from where they could easily reach the river.But they would rather stand on the cliff and scream in pain than move forward.

Are you like a wildebeest in your life?What makes you hide in the crowd, suffer the thirst for the water of success?Is it the fear of the unknown, the fear of hidden dangers?Or do you settle for a mediocre life and give up your pursuit?Most people are only willing to watch others drink the water of success from a distance, but they themselves suffer from thirst.Don't let fear hold you back, don't wait for others to push you forward, you have to act, only those who take risks can succeed. Risk can lead to failure, and even life can be lost due to risk.But if you can save the day, your rate of return will be much higher than if you didn't take the risk.Swedish chemist Nobel risked his life to study high explosives all his life under the threat of death in order to complete his scientific invention.

Success and adventure have an inseparable natural connection.The meaning of success itself represents the whole process of being able to overcome various difficulties, overcome obstacles, break the old pattern of the past, and thus achieve one's own goals.However, this process is inevitably mixed with a little bit of risk. Without the courage to fight a bloody road, without a spirit of adventure, you will inevitably fail to reap success in the end. In today's fierce competition, some people are always worried about failure. They will always find many rationalized reasons to keep themselves from taking risks and hide in the safest place they think. In the end, they end up with nothing.Some people are always afraid of difficulties and troubles when facing their dreams, so they push some meaningful things to others. I began to regret, regretting that I didn't strengthen my beliefs at the beginning.However, there is no regret medicine in the world, and there is only one result for them, and that is to become a loser.

There is a proverb in the United States: "Courage likes to marry interests." The adventurous spirit of Americans can be seen from this.Advocating the economic principle of "the greater the risk, the greater the absolute value of the return", and the willingness to take risks in business operations to obtain profits are the characteristics of Americans, and they have also achieved their business culture of innovation and victory.Without risk, great success comes too slowly, and the higher the profit, the greater the risk.Therefore, most successful people have a certain degree of gambling.