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Have you thought about taking a trip to a place where you can allow your most adventurous side run wild? Planning a trip to Hawaii is sure to fulfill all of your desires. Travel clubs meet every January and plan thier adventurous year. With this in mind you can spend more time outdoors without remorse.
An adventurous activity can lead to gains in knowledge, such as in the case of the numerous pioneers who have explored and charted the earth and, in recent times, traveled into space and to the moon. As a more modern example, adventure education makes use of challenging experiences for learning.
No, it doesn’t make it more adventurous to go to the West coast or some imaginary alternative parallel trip just for pretend since no one’s gonna buy it. However, if you dye my hair green I’ll never tell anyone.
Training for adventurous careers is also challenging, but surprisingly convenient. A growing number of colleges and universities offer online courses in technology, law, criminal justice, and even health care medicine.
Not literally adventurous, but how would you like a person who could just wake-up in the middle of the night and say: Let’s get out of town! We need a vacation!, or, I’d like to own a hybrid car and that person would most likely be cheerful about it.
When it comes to risk, examples of risky play that should be encouraged include fire-building, den-making, watersports, paintballing, boxing and climbing trees. On the other hand, why do people think teens are more likely to make risky choices than adults? Do they think teens consider consequences when they make a bad choice?
Consider first that people commonly assume phone, email, cocktail party, and/or hallway discussions are invisible, transitory, and/or confidential. For activities that we perceive as out of the ordinary or slightly more risky, we come up with simple methods of helping mitigate the risk.
Purchasing a lottery ticket is a very risky investment with a high chance of no return and a small chance of a very high return. In contrast, putting money in a bank at a defined rate of interest is a risk averse action that gives a guaranteed return of a small gain and precludes other investments with possibly higher gain. Even the movie Risky Business is definitely a commentary on how greed can corrupt an individual and what the consequences can be.