Your Faulty Sense of Risk and Reward
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Today we are going to be talking about your faulty sense of risk and reward and how that may be impacting you in your life.
I am going to share several stories during my childhood including my experience being on the luge team and riding roller coasters at Six Flags. In those stories, we can see common problems that many of us entrepreneurs and creatives face. It is time to stop playing small and fully own your greatness and step into your gifts.
We discuss:
- [00:53] Kyle shares a story about growing up in Park City Utah and joining the luge team.
- [02:01] Like everything else in life fear was not helpful going down the track.
- [02:31] Ironically trying to see where you are going in the luge puts you in danger.
- [03:43] Kyle shares a story about a day family and friends were watching him race and he crashed.
- [05:06] A few months later at the end of the season he decided that he did not want to continue with luge.
- [05:26] He was willing to spend two years launching himself down an ice track but not willing to ride a roller coaster. After some peer pressure, he decided to ride.
- [06:17] After they passed over the peak of the roller coaster hill and started speeding down, all of that fear melted into excitement and fun and he was hooked.
- [08:10] These stories shed light on common problems that we have. We are really not that good at assessing what we should be afraid of or judging the rewards of taking certain risks.
- [08:49] Some of us fear success more than failure and we feel our greatness more than inadequacies.
- [09:06] Kyle shares a quote from the movie Coach Carter.
- [09:51] Fully owning your greatness and stepping into your gifts shed light on the fact that you have been playing small that there are sacrifices that need to be made and that there has been a comfortable and small story that you have been living that needs to change.
- [10:07] By actually shining in your full brightness you expose yourself to criticism from others who still sit on the sidelines.
- [10:34] We take on the much greater risks of playing it safe and hiding our gifts and waiting for that oh-so-appealing someday rather than facing that fear.
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