00:00:00
In your head, think of one person you know that should never start a business. Yes. Why did you think of that person
00:00:08
without telling me who they are? Because they make a lot of money at their job and they like their job well enough.
00:00:16
They're not miserable. They're in their late 40s and they probably feel like it would be too big of a risk to start
00:00:22
something. And you objectively agree that it would be too big of a risk for them.
00:00:25
Yeah. Cuz people come to me like hoping that I'll encourage them to quit their job, right? Like begging me to do that
00:00:31
without actually begging me. And I don't want to do that. Like I I've never had to quit a job. Like I I started with
00:00:38
entrepreneurship, right? So the thought of being 48 with four kids and quitting my $400,000 a year job to test
00:00:46
something. It just sounds crazy to me. On the other hand, think of one person you know that isn't an entrepreneur, but
00:00:51
definitely should be. Yeah. Why did you think of that person? because it's a person that comes to me
00:00:57
the most often with ideas and they're really really good ideas. He's an engineer and so he sees the world in
00:01:04
that way. engineers make great entrepreneurs and he has a great work ethic and he's like mid-career but not
00:01:10
not so far along and I know objectively that he's not he's actually quite miserable in his job and I hate that for
00:01:17
him because I see the talent that's there and I want him like I think he would excel and I want to see that dream
00:01:25
come true for him. Why isn't he doing it? I think it it's insecurity. Fear. Yeah. fear of probably fear of just
00:01:34
letting go of something certain that's provided his family a nice lifestyle and not getting that back again ever. I
00:01:40
think that insecurities are at the root of our best and our worst selves and it can drive us to be our best or our worst
00:01:46
selves depending on how self-aware we are about those insecurities.