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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How Fear Influences Our Decision-Making Process | Conversation with Van Carlson

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Playbook, I sit down with Van Carlson, Founder & CEO at SRA, who shares how his company aids small businesses in managing risks using tools like the 831b tax strategy. Van and I reflect on how we achieved what we have and where we came from. to discuss key business strategies. Van recalls his journey to becoming a successful business owner and underlines that knowing the game's rules can help you win in the business world. We discuss how fear influences our decision-making and the importance of staying informed to avoid pitfalls.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Playbook.

0:07.3

This Dave Meltzer with Entrepreneurs of Playbooks at the world's greatest stadium, SoFi Stadium,

0:13.1

in Englewood, California, that's a billion dollar screen behind me and I have a billion

0:17.7

dollar guest with me.

0:19.3

He's saving billions and people don't even know how he does it.

0:23.5

Van Carlson, welcome to The Playbook.

0:26.4

Thank you, David.

0:28.1

Looking forward to our discussion as always and I think thanks for letting us be here.

0:32.6

It's awesome.

0:33.6

Of course, I love having you here because I talk about a difference between ignorant

0:38.1

arrogance and ignorant humility and there's only two types of people, ignorant people and

0:43.5

ignorant people and the ignorant arrogant person is the person that knows they don't

0:50.2

know what they don't know but they pretend like they do and I live many years, decades

0:55.4

in the ignorant arrogance stage and I even will tell you that the most dangerous ignorant

1:00.2

arrogant people are the people that we trust the most because they're the most afraid

1:04.6

for us and they're also the most afraid to admit they don't know what they don't know.

1:09.2

So our parents, for example, will give us really shitty advice because they're so afraid

1:13.8

for us.

1:14.8

You've got to be a lawyer or why because it's a secure job, right, but it's bad advice.

1:20.7

Then you have the ignorant humble people that they know they don't know what they don't

1:26.2

know and they admit it and so they seek people who know what it is that their specialty

1:33.4

is.

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