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Some people leap. Most people look.

Why do some people bet everything—again and again—when every rational voice says stop? Why does the founder who lost it all on Friday wake up Saturday already sketching the next venture? And why do the rest of us, watching from the sidelines, feel both baffled and quietly envious?

To find out, Raja CSP Raman studied 120 entrepreneurs—founders who built and lost fortunes, who walked away from stable careers and every sensible reason to stay put. What he found wasn't recklessness, and it wasn't simple courage. It was something closer to wiring: a kind of gene, whether inherited, forged, or awakened, that changes how a person sees danger, opportunity, and the unbearable cost of standing still.

The Risk-Taking Gene takes you inside that wiring. You'll meet risk-takers in their own words, trace the patterns that connect them, and see when the trait becomes a superpower—and when it becomes a trap. Whether you feel the pull yourself, love someone who does, or simply wonder what separates those who leap from those who look, this book will change how you see the edge.

Not luck. Not madness. Something that can be understood—and, perhaps, harnessed.

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