Why Do We Hesitate to Take Risks? | Dan Ariely

[music] [applause] [applause] Hello. Hello. Um, I want to talk a little bit about risk and I want to start by asking the following questions. If you were to increase your appetite to increase your appetite for risk for the next 10 years, do you think that in 10 years you would be happier or less happy? How many people here think that if you took more risk you would be happier 10 years from now? I think you're right. And I think the question is what's holding us back? I started thinking about this problem a ...