What I want to talk about today is let's take a step back from reality and maybe start looking at some assumptions that we're making about very important things in our lives.

This is entrepreneurs the playbook. about very important things in our lives.

This is entrepreneurs, the playbook. Our perception is not in our best interest.

And that kind of was puzzling to me because I was under the assumption that if I could control my perception

then that would be in my best interest. And exploring assumptions I

started realizing that a lot of problems in life

are that we overthink things in the respect that we take on assumptions but don't think about the assumptions we're taking on.

Let me explain.

One of the best things that's ever happened to me is I lost all my money.

And people always asked me, well, how is it you were the CEO of the most notable sports agency in the world who came out with a sports illustrated article about 75% of all athletes go bankrupt two and a half years after they're done playing and you have a law degree

from a great institution top of your club all these great academic things and

how is it that you lost that much money? What it came down to is the basis of assumptions is that I had always made money but I made one assumption with my money.

I assume that because I had equity in property that I always would be able to borrow against it because what bank wouldn't give a secured loan?

Right? And in my assumption I had, because I was still very young,

ever realized that banks could get into trouble.

And a bank could literally say, well,

you might have $40 million in equity, but we don't believe a few years from now

it's going to be 40 million in equity or even more even if we do believe that we'd

rather keep that money at this time because we're about to go bankrupt. And that's what occurred to me. That's what happened to me.

That's how I ended up losing all my with a variety of other things, but I was accountable

for the assumptions that I made

without truly doing any research or asking any help or figuring it out and I

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