How backup plans sabotage our success and learning to take calculated risks.

Matt Higgins is the author of "Burn the Boats" and has the story and success to back it.

After growing up in poverty looking after a disabled mother Matt has taken incredible risks to become the success he is today.

After deliberately flunking out of school he somehow made it to being a shark on Shark Tank for two seasons. He runs the VC firm RSE Ventures and he has lectured at Harvard Business School for several years.

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Matt Higgins

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Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.

Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Chapters

00:00 Cortes Burning the boats

01:31 Matt Higgins

04:12 The problem with Plan B

06:15 Managing Risks

10:57 When you should be able to retreat

15:22 Why We Should Not Romaticise Failure

17:41 Life After Shark Tank

24:37 Optimizing Strengths vs Improving Weaknesses

31:55 Importance of Commitment and Setting Intentions

33:54 Inspiring Women

38:57 Earliest Memory

39:38 Kindest Thing

40:39 Wrap up

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