It's great, though very alien to me; my family is mostly made up of planners and risk-avoiders.

One thing I have learned, though, is that good things come to me when I pursue three things: curiosity, the desire to have interesting conversations with interesting people, and the desire to get better at whatever I'm doing. If I follow where those three impulses lead, and stop thinking about "career-building" or "networking" or whatever, then I usually find myself in a place that I like, even if it's a place I didn't know existed before I got there.