6.3 Adaptive Risk-Taking

6.3 Adaptive Risk-Taking is your capacity to judge when and how to move beyond your comfort zone into risks that genuinely support growth, opportunity and vitality. When it’s underdeveloped, people either avoid all risks (paralysis, lost opportunities) or swing into impulsive, poorly judged risks (chaos, self-sabotage). When it’s cultivated, you balance caution with courage — weighing best and worst outcomes, checking values alignment and then choosing with clarity. This competency helps you transform fear and excitement into “courage with clarity,” using the Adaptive Risk-Taking Cycle to See → Name → Weigh → Choose → Act → Learn.