Stop Playing Safe

Rethink Risk, Unlock the Power of Courage, Achieve Outstanding Success

By: Margie Warrell

Narrated by: Eleanor David

Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins

Publisher's summary

What could you achieve if you were more courageous? We are hardwired to avoid risk but in an increasingly uncertain and competitive world, the true key to success is courage - the courage to speak up and challenge the status quo, the courage to take career-building risks, and the courage to seize the opportunities all around us. So, what's stopping you?

Best-selling author, media commentator and master coach, Margie Warrell here shares powerful tools and techniques for overcoming fear and achieving greater success and fulfillment. Stop Playing Safe features insights from trailblazing entrepreneurs and leaders in organisations including NASA, Ernst & Young, UN Foundation and Qantas. Don't wait for success to come to you. Learn to tap the power of courage to achieve greater clarity, confidence and satisfaction at work and beyond.

Margie Warrell is a Forbes columnist, best-selling author, sought-after media commentator and an internationally recognised thought leader in human potential. With her background in coaching, psychology and working with Fortune 500 companies, Margie supports individuals and organisations globally to live and lead more courageously and achieve outstanding success.

©2013 Maggie Warell (P)2013 Gildan Media

Great motivation to stop playing safe

I started reading the book in 2019, when I took a life challenge and move to another country, it was very inspiring, and I saw through the eyes of a courageous person. I returned this time to listen, after I took a new Job opportunity and face big challenges while I build myself into a new world. I felt the need to get back and take inspiration and re- build courage as I face situations that are definitely not safe!

I listened to 2 hours out of 8 and stopped

Here is why.

The first chapter (1hour) talk about having a purpose.
If you want courage "go have a purpose" if it were true all the people that are taking care for their family and to provide them which is quite a purpose no? would be courageous, but most people are not. Hence this is not the psychological process for taking risks.

The second chapter (1 hour) talk about risks more and being courageous, and she gives many "snake oils" which is backed up by science but if they work, why need so many? have you heard on pain killer that for it to work you need to take also 10 other different pain killers? I don't. Thus all those techniques will not help you take more risks.

The author does not know the psychological process of Risk Taking. and she gives many solutions that work singularity in a lab which the experimenter is manipulating the person for certain way which makes him a little more courageous then control group.

Unlikely that a person will jump in front of a machine gun by asking himself, as the author says: "what is the risk of not (taking the risk) jumping in front of a machine gun?" this is just to show how absurd this technique is!
obviously, any rational person will say that the risk of doing nothing is less than jumping in front of a machine gun.
Unless you catastrophize the option of not taking the risk (which the author not suggested to do), and in my example, if you are a woman you can be in a combat zone and be rap#d endlessly and thus death is better than being rap#d and you would jump in front of that machine gun.