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Feb 2023
38m 44s

Taking Comfortable Risks with Scott Gall...

SIMON SINEK
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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 aff ... Show More
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