Taking Comfortable Risks with Scott Galloway

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

When is a risk worth taking? We have to learn to embrace the comfortable risks - the ones where the pain of failure is worthwhile or even valuable. Podcaster, author and NYU professor, Scott Galloway and I talk about a lot of things including our concern that our youngest generation is too afraid of the risks worth taking and how that may be adversely affecting them. This is… A Bit of Optimism.

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0:00.0	Scott Galloway is a man of many talents and many opinions.
0:12.0	He is the host of the Prof. G. Podcast and the co-host of New York Magazine's Podcast
0:16.5	Pivot.
0:17.5	He's also a marketing professor at NYU Stern School for Business and the author of a drift
0:23.3	America in 100 charts.
0:25.5	He's also a speaker, an entrepreneur, and a famous pessimist.
0:30.1	I'd never actually met Scott before, so I wanted to get together with him and talk about,
0:34.8	well, everything, this is a bit of optimism.
0:42.7	I wanted to invite you on the podcast for a very simple reason.
0:46.3	You have a lot of opinions about a lot of things in the world and I figured over the course
0:50.9	of this hour we could solve all the problems together.
0:54.1	Oh, no, 50 minutes max.
0:56.1	I mean, that's what I love.
0:56.9	I mean, I love efficiency.
0:58.6	Depends how much we're drinking.
1:00.0	Depends how much we're drinking.
1:01.2	Yeah.
1:02.2	Do you find that when you drink more, your opinions get louder or stronger?
1:07.2	Yes.
1:08.4	And I find I like me and the rest of the world a lot more.
1:11.7	I'm a better version of me a little bit fucked up.
1:13.8	Are we allowed to use half-bomb here?
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