Financial Gamble: How AIG Fell for a 'Sure Thing'br Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Sydney PEN International Voices Lecture Seriesbr Bestselling satirical novelist Max Barry explains how our attitudes toward risk both define and confine us.He uses the mishandling of financial risk in the corporate world as a springboard to a more general discussion about the ways our attitudes towards different kinds of risk define us as people -- how risk informs the fundamental decisions we make about our lives.