Ours was a marriage launched in adventure, risk and the unknown.
Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.
To appreciate the breath of the concept, let us closely read the beginning of Taleb's prologue on antifragility: Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.
Another reader, married for 20 years, wrote: "Life is about adventure, risks, love, living... fall in love, take the plunge and let the chips fall where they may," adding that "overintellectualization" took the fun out of life.
And this, it seems to me, is the heart of all adventure, risking something new and, by so doing, perhaps to better ourselves.
Enjoys adventures, risks, and novelty.[22] Extroverts enjoy and seek out new experiences.
The charm of this literary exercise comes with the self-conscious indulging of a fantasy -- the fantasy of every granola-eating good citizen over 40 -- that we can have the thrill of adventure and risk and danger in our lives and that we would acquit ourselves well in conflict with gamblers, goons and crooked cops.
Love is, for him, about adventure and risk, not security and comfort.
His recourse was self-challenge: cold baths, boxing, rock climbing and, he adds, an addictive cultivation of adventure and risk.
"And this is very extreme theater," he added, knowing that his barely containable sense of adventure and risk needed to be tempered by a word of caution.
Cost cutting for theatergoers -- a trip to New York, parking, all that -- is as much a part of the new group's mission as adventure and risk.
