Episode 80: Risky Business
Real Business Owners
Trevor Cowley
5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This episode is about the importance of taking on risks and uncertainty. If you refuse to risk what you currently have, you're denying your true potential!
As children, we're taught to play it safe and AVOID risks, but this mindset will not serve you as an entrepreneur. Calculated risk is an essential part of the process. You can't live a fulfilled life in 100% safety!
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| 0:00.0 | Real Business owners. |
| 0:03.2 | Welcome back to the Real Business Owners podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | This is episode 80. |
| 0:07.7 | As always, myself, Trevor Cowley, Kell Goodman. |
| 0:11.4 | What's up, everybody? |
| 0:12.7 | Guys, today, the topic that we have is mainly about, you know, playing it safe versus |
| 0:19.6 | being smart. |
| 0:21.3 | You know, there's a lot of risks that you're going to have to take just in life in |
| 0:24.3 | general in order to progress, right, in order to, you know, see what your true potential is, right? |
| 0:30.5 | There's systematic norms, right? |
| 0:33.6 | You know, you go to school, then you go to college, you get your degree, you go get a good job, you work that job, then you retire, and that's it, right? |
| 0:45.1 | You retire off your 401k, that's not enough. |
| 0:47.9 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 0:49.0 | But you live to save life. |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah, you know, that's the issue, really, right? |
| 0:52.2 | You followed the program and it got you minimal. |
| 0:55.5 | Society's norms gave you society's normal results, right? And if you look around and the individuals |
| 1:02.3 | that are, you know, giving you advice or trying to talk you out of something that you really |
| 1:07.9 | have a lot of passion for or something that is really pulling you in that direction. |
| 1:12.9 | You know, they're obviously not doing it out of place of hatred or this, that the other. |
| 1:16.2 | They're trying to keep you safe because that's the way that their mind is ultimately programmed. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, sometimes it's out of love and sometimes it's out of jealousy. |
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