It's amazing how small incidents in your life, can determine, how you would act again if you are in the same situtation, or even how you will behave in general. Basically, in my opinion, experiences, can make you a totally different person, than you used to be. I, myself, have noticed, how my driving experiences, have made me grow up. Initially, when I started driving, I was very cautious and would over analyze everything. After a while, that I became more comfortable with my car and the concept of speed, then I became very impatient, and could predict most of the moves by the cars around me. It made me over confident, and think that I know better. After, the fuel incident, I realized, that you can not predict everything. Once again, driving is like, life. In life, if you are knowlegable, meaning that you are aware of things happening around you, you can predict with a good approximation. However, there are events, that are not predictable and you have to set a variable or a in the margin of error on your decision. Now I guess the question is, how would you decrease the risk of failure in any form, different people define failure differently based on their ideals and priorities?Are risk and playing safe,an inverse function of each other?