Risk - A User’s guide by General Stanley McChrystal (U.S. Army, Retired) and Anna Butrico

Risk is a part of every firefighter’s daily life. Not just on the job. Once exposed to all those things that can go wrong for other people, we tend to recognize risk all around us all the time.

I like McChrystal as an author and this is a pretty deep and interesting dive on a subject that I really haven’t done a lot of direct reading on.

“Effectively dealing with risk is not relying on a novice gambler’s luck and the next turn of a card, nor is it covering your ears as you walk through a minefield in the hopes that if you don’t hear the boom then it won’t eviscerate you. Dealing with risk is the active practice of controlling any single factor within your reach.”

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