RE: The Value of Consistency and Perseverance
There are pros and cons to both of those kinds of attributes. Enthusiastic spirit can definitely drive home your finer points to angle inverters and get employees on board in a startup. It can also lead you to have tunnel vision and being blindsided. There is a big difference between taking a risk and understanding the opportunity risk presents. Sure if you're a youtuber and you skydive out of an airplane with no parachute on you will get lots of views from your death-- you are also dead.
Both of these attributes can result in great success, but can also cause you to overshoot and miss the target altogether. Often times people let greed get the better of them. It's more about creating, and taking advantage of the opportunity you find in life. Even something with very little risk can yield far better long term results than a high-risk opportunity. These things are rather complex issues entrepreneurs face every day.
To me, saying "you have to have an enthusiastic spirit and take risks" sounds like something a 26 year old college grad who sells iPhone cases out of a kiosk would write after having read it in Cosmo.
Or someone trying to sell you on a program based on “enthusiastic spirit and risk taking” Where oddly enough you feel like you learned nothing. The program was them over selling it with their enthusiastic spirit, and a dumb risk of someone buying it hoping it leads somewhere hehe.