Dan Martell - June 09, 2024


You're not playing safe you're playing small

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Length

37 seconds

Words per minute

228.09

Word count

144

Sentence count

11

Harmful content

Toxicity

1

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In this episode, I talk about how to deal with the worst case scenario of your business failing, and why you should be worried about it. I also talk about why risk is not a bad thing, and how to handle it.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Tomorrow morning you wake up,
00:00:01.300 your bank account's empty.
00:00:02.900 Your customers say,
00:00:03.960 off, I'm done.
00:00:04.940 Your worst scenario is what?
00:00:07.120 Are you telling me you have nobody in your family,
00:00:08.920 nobody in your friend group
00:00:09.820 that might help you out for a little bit?
00:00:11.140 I do, I do.
00:00:11.780 Oh, crazy.
00:00:12.540 Don't make up these beliefs about what is not true.
00:00:15.560 You know, risk, what are we talking about?
00:00:17.660 Dude, I used to do way worse that risked my life.
00:00:20.080 The business stuff we think is risk is not risk.
00:00:22.020 That's why entrepreneurs that go and join Y Combinator,
00:00:23.960 they're like, oh, I'm taking a risk.
00:00:25.140 You quit Google,
00:00:26.540 you got paid half a million dollars
00:00:28.760 to start a tech company and the worst case is you go make 400 grand a year the day after your tech
00:00:34.660 company fails. F*** off. Zero risk. 1.00