The 5 Principles To Make Smarter Risks with Allison Schrager
The Mindvalley Podcast
Mindvalley
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The more risks we take, the better we get at it. Economist, journalist and risk-taking specialist, Allison Schrager, shares the fascinating relationship between the world of risks in the finance industry and how the same principles can be applied to the risks we have to make in our day to day lives. Ready to learn how to take smarter risks to enhance your life? Tune into the master risk-taker today.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Vichin Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation. |
| 0:05.2 | You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and |
| 0:09.2 | thought leaders on the |
| 0:13.0 | planet, |
| 0:14.0 | personal growth for mind, body, spirit, and work. |
| 0:18.0 | Mind Valley fans, welcome to another episode |
| 0:20.0 | The Mind Valley Podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | Today we're going to be talking about how to be okay with |
| 0:24.9 | risk if you think about the world today the world is changing at an exponential |
| 0:30.2 | rate and you've heard about these concepts risk-taker being able to be okay |
| 0:36.0 | with risk how do you overcome the fears of the stress associated with taking risk at |
| 0:41.6 | the other side of risk they might be great rewards, but risk |
| 0:45.4 | can sometimes are nervous, make us feel unsafe, it can cause incredible strain. The |
| 0:51.0 | topic of this podcast is going to be how to be okay with |
| 0:54.9 | taking risk and making decisions that might be risky, but that might have a big |
| 1:00.1 | upside and I'm so excited about our guest today. Well firstly, she has a degree from |
| 1:04.1 | the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. She has |
| 1:09.2 | written for The Economist, Wired, The National Review, and Playboy, she was awarded the 2016 Society for American |
| 1:16.8 | Business Editors and Writers Award for her feature writing in Quarts magazine, and her new book is called Get This and Economist |
| 1:25.5 | walks into a brothel. So welcome to the Mind Valley podcast Allison Shrager. |
| 1:30.4 | Allison so good to have you here. |
| 1:32.4 | Thanks so much for having me. |
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