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The idea behind this is that you don’t have to hold yourself to only trying for things you are pretty sure will go well and you are fairly confident about. This wouldn’t be as much for the idea of say extreme sports. You don’t want to take a chance even if it is a low chance in swimming torrential currents or super high waves. This idea would more so refer to situations where you aren’t that confident of how things will go, maybe even say a phone call to someone new. But you don’t want to apply this idea to situations where the consequences are disastrous if things don’t work out. You are still operating on the safe side of the street so to speak. Another possible way this goes is that we do look for outlines in what we attempt to do and sometimes we need to adjust outlines to increase our chances but remember that it is not the easiest thing to come up with an outline especially if we lack the experience. For example someone who has hiked a long trail in the mountains of a National Park can use the familiarity of that particular trail with forming an outline for a subsequent hike but if they lack any prior familiarity with the trail then it is that much harder to come up with a decent outline and someone else s help would be useful if they have already hiked that particular trail. What can go into the outline say for the hike is previous experience where you did trek the miles in this terrain and showed endurance and a degree of strength. But there is uncertainty that you have come up with an outlined plan that does equate with a good hike now and you don’t want to compromise away from the whole idea by just having at best a very sketchy outline of the hike. The chance of coming up with a good or better outline is a low chance but you can proceed with a sketchy outline with some degree of confidence but it might be better to have a hiking buddy with you. Realistically you might be working with relatively scant outlines and this brings things more so into the category of having lower chance aspects to it. That is lower chance aspects of having a good outline. Not only in this situation but in many situations, the search for a good outline is like the search for a good chance. But the reality is that we may have to at times work with less of an outline and less of a chance than would be ideal. You do want to give yourself however permission to look into things and, approach things that have or seem to have low probabilities of succeeding. What goes against this is the whole idea of the success syndrome, where every other thing I might want to do has to be rubber stamped with success right at the outset. There are any number of things that I can be quite unsure about as I start to do something and as I'm less sure, there is often less likelihood that I'll start the process at all. There really is from my point of view a low chance of good things coming from this. But the low chance proposal is not wholly indicative of what the chance contains and how it might actually be a good chance despite having low chance of succeeding. The beltway might be tied up but maybe it can still get me to great places if I can break through the log jam eventually. Even failure in most cases does not compromise some of the core qualities you might have and do retain even in the midst of failure. If Lebron James loses a basketball game, we are not quite ready to say he is not an amazing basketball player. He retains his skills at the game despite the loss. This statement frees you up to explore situations that often are quite new and you can’t get a handle on it that you are can even see that you would like this idea, would enjoy yourself and would feel confident about it, but there is that one flicker of light or attraction that invites a look see or a deeper inquest into the situation. Taking a chance even if it is a low chance does have a lot to do with being able to explore within reason something that seems almost out of bounds for you, or not in your realm, but you can’t quite say that it isn’t or couldn’t be so you could proceed with the investigation more so on the idea that I’ll take a chance even if it is a low chance and probably isn’t something for me but I am alive and part of living is the freedom to explore without the constrictions of having to always be Mr. or Ms. successful no matter what. Looking for high probability outcomes right from the get go could leave you frustrated at the outset and you can both deflect and defer frustration and potential disappointments figuring that this is a low chance and this reality is something that I can still fly with at this moment in taking the low chance. The other side of this is what you are taking a chance on. It might be something that if somehow it does fly, can be very, very good.And you might feel you are already in the situation that is not so good so why not take even a low chance to get a better situation? Say meeting someone on a blind date and you become long lasting pals with the person or even romantically inclined towards each other. The chance could lead to very good outcomes for you and for that someone else who is also taking a chance that is also a low chance for them. Also, you may want to go far enough into your chance to where at least you are taking a look see at the situation. For example if you want to explore fiction writing, but fear you aren’t really all that good at it, you could take the chance and write for a half hour and at least you have something to look at and appraise rather than nothing at all that you wrote yourself but you still haven't gone far enough to confirm your fears of being not so good at it so you aren’t going to get hit with egg in your face so to speak either. It is more like the idea of just dipping into the waters and feeling if it is warm enough, inviting enough and then from there seeing how you feel so you can then decide whether to go ahead with a full scale swim. If the waters are unwelcoming, too cold or too this or that, the aftereffects of just dipping in will not be too bad either, and at least you still took a dip and formed for yourself a little bit of a basis for your choices. But if the waters are that good, you find this out and you can take advantage of this and enjoy. Another thing is that from your perspective, this is a low chance and it is seemingly not to likely to be a good change or a high probability pursuit but that doesn’t mean you can’t act in this realm and also might it be your perception from where you are that this is a low chance and from another view you would get another perception that upgrades this from being just a low chance, but you can’t get to that upgrade unless you proceed first within the territory of a low chance. You might get into another territory that changes the scene into a higher or better chance as you proceed, You might find a Christmas tree after all, or a pristine valley at a later point on a hike. Take the idea of trying some exotic new dish. There may be a low chance you would like it, but if you do then you are home free from that point on to enjoying that dish. You do need to proceed in some fashion to obtain the additional perception that is found by proceeding. And if you are still finding that it is in the range of a low chance, you can still go forward as you have the right to take a chance even if it is a low chance. A lot of how society is built is that you need to obtain success, and build on these successes and have these successes in your pocket as you proceed on all fronts. There is less consideration of trying to jump start something from a failure. Thomas Edison certainly didn’t work that way, he took low chances. If Thomas Edison was involved with success syndrome, we would have missed out on many benefits from his discoveries. What this builds into is the idea that any building blocks I consider should be seen as something that is going to light up as successful right from the get go. This idea crowds out the taking chances that are low chances as all the arguments that are against looking into this and considering proceeding on this are over weighted with the idea of whether success is likely. So then the arguments against success are totally up front and block the whole idea as the wall of success is like an upsurge of sand on the Sahara just blocking your way even in terms of potential views and you yourself head things off at the pass because you take only medium chances or high chances. But now you are permitted to take low chances and now you have more total chances and still retain the medium and high chances. With the idea of a low chance you can proceed even if you are highly unlikely to get anything positive going, there is still some glimmer of possibility there and therefore that glimmer can be considered until that light goes all the way out.
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