Andrew Krakie Andy Levesque Het Patel Risk and Reward Andrew Krakie Andy Levesque Het Patel

Thesis The Risks we are willing to take are determined only by the Reward we are promised.

Video https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxg6MPdOE-bPQ3hnLW04NFgyblU

Risk and Reward - Freedom Two men, one whom we all know and one we don’t, both shared a common risk during a time where this risk was incredibly dangerous to undertake.

Paul Langvelin French Physicist Lover to Marie Curie

Samuel Beckett Irish Author Nobel Prize Winner

Questions The risks these men took had little reward for themselves but great reward for countless people in the long run. What kind of person does it take to risk something like their lives for a cause with no guaranteed or even foreseeable reward?

Risk and Reward College Education

- Must put up with oppressive Russian education - Defies Russia’s grip on education by joining the Flying University. - Dreams about the freedom of studying in Paris and begins to save for tuition.

- Needs change in her life after getting dumped by her boyfriend so she boards a train to Paris - Begins plotting scientific endeavors

- Enrolls in university. Changes her name to Marie to fit in better - Enrolls in university. Changes her name to Marie to fit in better. Is one of the only women students. - Earns degrees in mathematics and physics and is hired to study magnetic properties of steel.

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Questions Does this deter you from continuing and completing your college education or are you inspired to keep going? Although you take on many risks in college, does they alleviate some of the risks going forward in life and do the rewards justify why you are here?

Risk and Reward Millennials fear risk

https://www.td.org/Publications/Blogs/Management-Blog/2015/06/Millennials- the-Risk-Averse-Generation Millennials are taking less risks than generation X. Our generation has less entrepreneurs starting businesses. We want clear cut instructions We factor out the “what if” in a lot of situations because we are told to be safe, and our parents want us to encounter less struggles than they did Failing has a negative connotation attached to it.

Question Have you ever taken a risk that you were glad you took? Or did you regret your risk?

https://youtu.be/zq7CfAlgDfI. TED talk on risk if time permits

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