Taking Comfortable Risks with Scott Galloway

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02/07/23 • 38 min

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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 the youngest generation is too afraid of the risks worth taking and how that may be adversely affecting them.

This is... A Bit of Optimism.

For more on Scott and his work check out:

https://www.profgalloway.com/

https://profgmedia.com/the-pod/

https://profgmedia.com/pivot/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713560/adrift-by-scott-galloway/

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.

This is... A Bit of Optimism.

For more on Scott and his work check out:

https://www.profgalloway.com/

https://profgmedia.com/the-pod/

https://profgmedia.com/pivot/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713560/adrift-by-scott-galloway/

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A Bit of Optimism - Taking Comfortable Risks with Scott Galloway

Transcript

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Scott Galloway is a man of many talents and many opinions. He is the host of the prof g podcast and the co host of New York Magazine's podcast Pivot. He's also a marketing professor at NYU's Stern School for Business and the author of a Drift America in one hundred Charts. He's also a speaker, an entrepreneur, and a famous pessimist. I'd never actually met Scott before, so I wanted to get together with him and talk about well everything, this is