Jason Wasser, LMFT 🎗️Founder, Shevet Collective · Therapy & Coaching for Entrepreneurs, Family Businesses 🖥 Certified Neuro Emotional Technique Practitioner Founder Shevet Collective 🎧Host:You Winning Life Podcast 🎤

The Most dangerous thing in life is...

19 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker argues that the greatest danger in life is not external threats but personal inaction. He recounts how friends missed opportunities—starting a business, attending college, working on Wall Street—due to fear that seemed logical at the moment. He contrasts imagined fears with genuine physical dangers like a lion, bear, or combat, emphasizing that many fears never materialize. The speaker advises a practical exercise: write down each fear or thing you’re reluctant to do, then revisit the list after 30 days to see that none of those fears have actually occurred, reinforcing that inaction, not real threats, is the true risk.

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I go back to the most dangerous thing in life is inaction. You just won't move, you're frozen. And I had so many friends when I was growing up that didn't want to start the business with me, that didn't want to go to college when I went to college, that didn't want to go to Wall Street when I went to Wall Street. And they had all good reasons at that moment, maybe it was fear-based, whatever it was, but they sounded logical. And time just pass them by. And I've heard enough regrets in my life that, um, and I realize that they're not real threats when we're afraid of them. Like, a real threat is a lion coming out at you, right? A bear that you're facing in the woods alone. You're in the Ukraine and you're surrounded by the enemy. Like, those are real threats. The stuff that scares us What I would say is write it down. I'm really afraid of this. I don't want to do it. And then look back 30 days and see— look at all those fears and see how many actually transpired. None.