Advanced Riskology is a blog to which you can very well relate yourself as it motivates you to avoid "the way it’s supposed to be". It teaches you how to take risks and rise beyond the obvious. The daring author at Advanced Riskology, Tyler Tervooren, realized the fact that 'it is not always like it is supposed to be' pretty soon and did something extraordinary, out of the box. He has a personality that truly justifies the title of his blog 'better living through uncertainty.'

The more I read Tyler's posts, the greater influence it had on me and it altered my perception about the term 'risk-taking'.


We have Tyler himself with us to share his insights with us. Catch his interview below and get ready to be inspired:


Tyler, please introduce yourself to E-junkies.

Hello, dear E-junkies. I'm a writer and micro-entrepreneur who runs a website called Advanced Riskology. I like red wine, long walks on the beach, and I have a soft spot for creative businesses.


Tell us something about your very interesting blog 'Advanced Riskology'. What is its basic idea?

The basic idea of Advanced Riskology is that we don't understand the concept of risk as well as we think we do, so we usually end up taking a lot of dumb ones without realizing it and missing out on opportunities to take great ones. The tagline of the site is "better living through uncertainty" and my goal is to rally people like me who believe we can improve our lives by taking bigger and better calculated risks.























What triggered you to start blogging? We would love to know about its inception.

I first started blogging as a creative outlet when I was working a full-time job in a field that wasn't fulfilling my need to be creative. I was working 12-14 hours a day doing something I didn't like very much and I needed something that would feed my creative desires. I've always had some sort of creative hobby since I was a little kid, and when I started my "original career" I found myself for the first time without one. That didn't sit right with me for long, so I went looking for something that would make me feel alive again, and I found writing.


It's been more than a year now since you've started your blog. Would you like to share your blogging experience with us?

My blogging experience? Well, I write a lot and some people read it. If everything goes right, more people read it each week, but that doesn't always happen. I'm not 100% sure what the goal of the question is, but my writing philosophy is just to always try to be as helpful and entertaining as I can be. People read blogs because they want to learn something important and they need to be entertained. I just try to give people what they want. :)


Your blog is about what you perceive about life (according to your 'about' page). Is that something makes your blog stand out? What do you think are the factors that makes your blog being read by so many people?

Actually, I don't think that makes it stand out at all. There are probably a million blogs online with writers who do nothing but talk about how the perceive life. Opinions aren't really remarkable in any way because everyone has one. I think why Advanced Riskology readers enjoy my site is because I have a consistent message that I really believe in.

I talk about lots of things related to risk taking, and I try to be honest about the positives and the negatives. I base my writing on science and sound reason. In every way, I just try to "make sense." I conform to a strict "non-guru" policy.

Also, I only write what I know. I try to go and do things and have new experiences before I write about them. It shouldn't be like this, but unfortunately many writers are tossing out advice and opinions that they don't actually follow themselves or have any experience. They just think of something that sounds interesting and throw it out. I suppose there's a time and place for that, but it's not how I operate.


What was that one 'aha' moment for your blog or is it yet to come?

I think the "aha" moment is mostly a myth. Everybody waits for it to come, and when it doesn't they think they're destined to fail or something. Aha moments, from my own experience, are rarely one-off epiphanies. My aha moments come when something happens over and over again and I finally wise up and realize, "Oh, now I understand why this keeps happening."

So, I've had many aha moments, but I'm a bit thick headed, so I imagine I'll slowly stumble onto many more.


Let's have a rapid fire:

One blogging tool you can't do without?

An imagination.


One blogger you always look up to?

David McRaney of YouAreNotSoSmart.com.


One quality every blogger must possess?

Adaptability.


Tea or coffee?

Tea! Peppermint!


Morning person or evening person?

In the summer: morning. In the winter: definitely evening


One line that keeps you going..

"If at first you don't succeed... destroy all evidence that you tried."


Give us a few tried n tested methods of promoting a blog.

Write awesome words in awesome combinations over and over again. Try to help people until you can't think straight anymore. Say yes to every interview anyone ever asks you to do.


What are your dreams/vision for 'Advanced Riskology'?

I have lots of ideas for what to do with the site as it grows, but it's all very organic. I try to look at the trends among people reading and then find a project to do that bisects what they want to learn about and what I want to do. In the end, the only thing I care about is that AR helps and connects as many people as possible.


Many of our readers and other bloggers would draw inspiration from you. What message do you have for them?

Work harder than anyone you know. And don't stop until you've built an empire. But don't keep your head down in the trenches the whole time. Look up once in awhile to be sure you're headed where you want to go.


Tyler, thank you for this extensive interview and sharing you blogging journey with us. It was a great experience talking to you. We wish you all the very best with 'Advanced Riskology'.


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