Chapter 6 The Ingenious: Intelligent Risk Taking in Swan Lake

DOI: 10.4324/9781315300368-8

If we expect the unexpected, we are better equipped to cope with it than if we lay extensive plans and believe that we have eliminated the unexpected.

—Dietrich Dörner1

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

—T. S. Eliot2

And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

—Erica Jong3

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