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Gray Rhino & Company CEO Michele Wucker participated in a recent FlexJobs webinar on Risk and the Future of Work: How to Thrive Amid Uncertainty with FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton and Deskpass CoFounder and Chief Community Officer Nicole Vasquez, on April 8, 2021. The webinar continued a conversation from Wucker’s new book, YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World, in which she interviewed both Sutton and Vasquez.

Each one of us has a risk personality that is as distinct as a fingerprint. Our risk fingerprints start with our underlying personality traits, which you might think of as the ridges, arches, loops, and whorls that give the fingerprint structure and make it distinctive. Our experiences alter the fingerprint much as a cut might leave a scar. Just as a real fingerprint offers forensic analysts clues to identity, the risk fingerprint offers a window into who each of us is: how we feel about authority and power, about our sense of human agency, how we relate to each other in groups, and broader cultural differences that can make societies particularly risk sensitive or risk blind. It sheds light on what people hope and fear—and why—and how much power they feel they and their leaders have over the world around them.

How do you know when this risk is smart? My answer, when you are clear on why you are doing it. Some risks are worth taking. Risk begets reward, enables progress and also put us outside of our comfort zone.