The speaker left employment to start a business and argues that staying in the same job for years is riskier than pursuing your own venture. Inaction has long-term consequences you might not see coming.
One of the biggest risks that I've taken was taking that step away from being an employee and going into business in the first place. Because yes, there's risk in stepping out on your own and deciding to take total unequivocal responsibility for your life, your situation, your results. But you know what? There's also a lot of risk staying doing the exact same thing day after day after day. And so what you've gotta ask yourself the question is, what is the greater risk? Is the greater risk actually going after your dreams? Or is the greatest risk actually staying exactly where you are? To me, that's the biggest nightmare. What if I was in the exact same situation that I'm in right now in 5 years?
