Calculated Logic

Calculated Risks
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There are
r i g i d
p e o p l e
who stick to a narrow range of
"acceptable behavior"

Freud might have said they have large super-egos or perhaps they are anal-compulsive.

There are creative types,	artists
who live close to the	extremes
of acceptable behavior - their	high imaginations
keep them near the	edges
of the	"calculated safe risk zone."

Sometimes this is because of poor "arithmetic" skills
(i.e. they lack the required skills to make safe choices)
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and sometimes because artists discovered that it is worth taking
risks to sense the better life the unusual the deeper the fuller life.

In the
"relative measure"
of risk taking we are all about the same
- each of us lives close to her/his own limits of vulnerability
at any given time.

In the
"absolute measure,"
of the risks taken, the content and quality, we are vastly different from one another,

cats included.

Needing to sleep in a tree in December to survive the night, leaves no time

(or very little anyway)

for Bach, Escher or Göedel.