There is a huge psychological gap between assuming you are a risk-taker because you put on trades and fully accepting the risks inherent in each trade.
Despite having been kidnapped twice, Farrell is a careful risk taker - trying to manage the threat in the many hostile environments his work has taken him.
Leaving aside your condo purchase decision, you seemed to be a reckless risk-taker as you jumped into the real estate market without a thorough understanding of the market situations.
Social entrepreneurship has come to be synonymous with the individual visionary-the risk taker who goes against the tide to start a new organization to create dramatic social change.
Likewise, if you want to be a right risk-taker, eventually you will have to fully commit yourself to the risk, and all the hardships and imperfections that come with it.