Having high risk doesn’t mean getting high reward.
You could jump from an airplane with no parachute, the risk is high but there is no reward.
So, ideally you don’t want high risk opportunities, you want to minimize risk and get some rewards.
Or you could go play the roulette and put everything you have on 0, the risk is high, but the chance of huge reward is very low.
Today people say high risk = high reward, if high risk = high reward, then everybody would risk everything always because the reward would be guaranteed.
So it’s better to always minimize risk because reward is not guaranteed.