When you decide to take risk you should try to know the risk percent and compare it to rewards.
Else you are not risk taker, you turn to gambeling.
Ask your self what is the risk and what is the rewards, if rewards worth then take risk if you like to be risk taker.
Normaly risk must be less than rewards inorder to take risk. Other wise no.
I agree with what you say, we really have to assess how much risk we will take, we have to compare it with what we might get if we dare to take that risk, for example when we decide to invest in bitcoin then I think the risk is worth what we might get
because now the price of bitcoin is being cheap while bitcoin has several times shown its potential in getting high prices