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Good friends have a special way of humbling you.

They can act as our mirrors, allowing us to see something in ourselves that we might

not always be looking at.

I have a friend who likes to tease me, gently, about my relationship to realism.

What can I say? I like to be realistic and manage expectations.

I find that's my way to stay honest with myself and get things done.

That's why he sometimes calls me, but don't be. Because I'm often like,

no, I don't do that, or I'm not doing that, that won't work. The thing is, he might have a point.

What would happen if I gave myself permission

to throw caution to the wind and break a few rules?

I'm a dua Akenola, that's right, Madupa Akenola, and this is Ted Business. Our speaker today is all about stepping out of our comfort zones.

Entrepreneurship professor John Mullins has six specific mindsets designed to help us think strategically,

embrace challenges, and innovate and grow.

John also offers some real world examples of these frameworks in practice.

And even if we aren't in charge of some huge corporation,

these stories contain lessons for all of us.

Then after the talk, I'll reflect on strategies

that help me get out of my own way.

But first, a quick break. In 1995, a graphic teacher,

in 1995, a graphic design teacher named Linda Weinman and also an aspiring entrepreneur decided to get the website

Linda.com. She did so because she needed a sandbox to play in with the new graphic design tools, the digital tools that were being developed at that time, Photoshop, illustrator, and many more.

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