{"id":69,"date":"2011-03-20T19:15:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-03-20T19:15:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T03:15:58","slug":"always-take-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/2011\/03\/20\/always-take-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"ALWAYS TAKE RISKS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Ryan\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-2.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/files\/2011\/03\/442645_rock_climbing_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70\" title=\"TAKE RISKS\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/files\/2011\/03\/442645_rock_climbing_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take Risks - Life has no meaning without them!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Risk-taking is often a crazy idea for some people. In fact, it was one for me just a short while ago. Yet, because of a leadership conference I attended a mere two years ago, I now utilize risk-taking on a regular basis. Though not from one particular person, a variety of speakers at this four day conference influenced me to always take risks.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I now attend the University of British Columbia in the commerce program, this was not always the plan. Originally, I planned to attend York University, about a 20 minutes drive from my home. This plan was made because I was too afraid to leave home, I wanted to stay at home and live my comfortable life. However, hearing inspirational speakers at the conference as well as the experiences of many other business professionals, I was interested in experiencing new things. They, along with several other teachers at my high school always taught me to take risks; which makes life more fulfilling So, I applied to Simon Fraser University and UBC, hoping to get in and move my life from Aurora, ON to Vancouver. Being accepted by both schools, I left my friends, my comfortable home oriented life and moved to UBC, where I knew noone and had no family whatsoever within over 3000 km. Now that I am here though, I am experiencing so many new things; new cultures, new friends, and much more difficult skiing!<\/p>\n<p>If it was not for these people, I may not have chosen to move here, and make my decision that Vancouver is where I want to live and work when I graduate, or learn so many valuable life lessons, living on my own (well, apart from family at least). If I had not taken a risk, I would not have been here, having the best time of my life, and getting a great education in the meantime. So, to sum up, ALWAYS TAKE RISKS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Risk-taking is often a crazy idea for some people. In fact, it was one for me just a short while ago. Yet, because of a leadership conference I attended a mere two years ago, I now utilize risk-taking on a regular basis. Though not from one particular person, a variety of speakers at this four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2923,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2923"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ryanabushinov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}