A Deeper Discussion on Daringness

首先要多謝留comment 的 Joe and Gladys．
上一篇entry提到daring ge 問題，Gladys 係comments 中回應了(c.f. comments to last entry)因此想在這篇entry中再說說我對daring ge 看法．

haha enough Chinese till here.. I am trying to type more Chinese in my entries to keep it interesting but it is definitely too time consuming to complete the whole thing by Chinese here. It would kill me to keep trial-and-erroring around 2-3 times for each character.. In any case it is in my plan to type more chinese.

Back to the title of this passage. I wanna elaborate more on the topic of daringness. In fact I would like to modify the phase a little bit into "rational daringness".

Daringness, according to my definition, is very very different from impulsiveness, in which people tend to act recklessly to attain a certain goal without taking into account of the potential risks and gains. On the other hand daringness is the quality of a person that a human is willing to stick onto something and try to attain a certain contributive goal after detailed and thorough analysis of the situation, the potential risks and gains. The most admirable thing about this certain rational daringness is that it doesn't put personal interest on the top of the list (although with the rule of rationality, personal security is still an priority) but instead, the interest of "the group", including self, is at the top of the list. On the other hand, although the goal of an impulsive person can still be very noble, such intension is not a must to meet the criteria of impulsiveness. I must add in here that "daring" to me is not the same as the "dare" in "Do you dare to .....". It is much much more in context.

Let me further elaborate the concept by giving an example. A person who goes to work as a volunteer in a war zone can be either an impulsive or a daring person. An impulsive person would run here and there trying to save at many people as they can. Yet, he/she doesn't put SWOT analysis as a consideration and just dash here and there, putting him/herself and his/her colleagues into dangers. On the other hand, a daring person, while trying to save as much as possible, would take stretagies so that he/she and his/her colleagues are protected from unnecessary dangers.

Daringness, therefore, is a quality that a valued person needs to attain. Of course, we become less "daring" as we grow. But that is because the amount of risk we can withstand decreases as our daily responsibility increases. We should still retain the quality of daringness so that we can keep the fire on and to attain our goal after clever evaluation of the whole thing.

So, I still keep daring as a necessary quality to live a valued life.

Coming soon:
My view on Cilvilization, global village and culture values--Where we are heading?