I think a key attribute in fostering entrepreneurial thinking is learning to adjust one’s perception of risk to include an awareness of the opportunity lurking behind that risk. I think an individual becomes an entrepreneur when he starts to fear his missed opportunities more than he fears the risk in front of those opportunities.
As far as I’m concerned, a failure to pursue an opportunity for the sake of “security” is nothing more than an illusion created to comfort those who are afraid of facing failure. Do I fear failure? Yes. But I’m also becoming a lot more comfortable with it as I stumble through my experiments and learn from the outcomes.