I recently found a blog with some interesting skydiving articles. One particular post on this blogger’s website that I liked, discussed our everyday perception of risk. It’s also worth checking out some of the other articles on that website under the skydiving category.
Below is an excerpt from the original feature discussing risk perception.
…Few of us think of ourselves as risk takers. Skydiving, bungee jumping or street luge are not in the vocabularies most of us use to describe our daily activities. Yet we live with risk all day, every day, without jumping out of airplanes or off bridges, or zipping down the street on our backs. Most risks we take are unseen among the minutiae of getting through the day. They’re there, but few of us spend a lot of effort thinking about them. Most of us live our lives as if we could escape from risk by being careful…
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