“…After all, we are educators and counsellors, not hot-air balloonists, Formula-one racers, test pilots, members of SWAT teams, or professionals of that kind. However, Frank Farley (1986) of the University of Wisconsin, has, with others, further distinguished this characterological disposition: it expresses itself in mental activities as well as physical ones. For example, some individuals have a predilection for the cognitively creative, perhaps bizarre; others for the banal or highly conventional; for financial risk taking, perhaps gambling, or for secure investment; for new disciplines, or for long-established, tried-and-true disciplines; for activities that are amorphous, contingency-rife, or for jobs that are routinized and rule-governed.…”