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The importance of risk in being successful.
Hey Guys--
One of my favorite shows to watch is "American Greed." It's a show
about con men, but also a show about "marks" and while I don't like
way the media misuses the word "greed" in this case it is an
appropriate title.
In fact, it is more appropriate than the producers may have
intended because greed not only drives a lot of the con men, it
drives a lot of the marks ("victims").
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I've always defined greed as ill gotten money without the delivery
of requisite value, and you see a lot of that on this show.
One of the biggest scams con men run has to do with taking money
for "can't fail investments" then spending that money on themselves
lavishly. Most are really just punks trying to make themselves
look big via the appearance of wealth instead of the actual
creation of it.
Eventually they run out of money, the investors demand
accountability, the scheme falls apart and the con man ends up
where he should--in the clink.
However, what is fascinating about the show is to watch how angry
the marks get at the con man for taking every dime they had because
they "believed in him."
When you sit down and examine the con man's proposition to them,
what you find is this: gigantic, guaranteed, riskless returns.
So, the marks turn over everything they have, never asking
themselves the question, "what happens if I lose everything because
this deal goes south?" Then, when it does go south, they heap all
the blame on the con man, and none on themselves... they wanted to
believe in a world without risk and that just doesn't exist.
Lookit, I myself have lost money (and made money) on risky
investments and business ventures. But I have always operated from
the
point of view of "what happens if it all goes bad," even when I
thought the chance was slim of it going bad.
And when it did go bad, I was always able to get out with no
permanent damage because I planned in case it did. I accepted the
risk, and took ACCEPTABLE losses.
That's the difference between the man who succeeds and the man who
fails. The man who succeeds lives in the world of risk, managing
it appropriately, shrugging his shoulders when it doesn't work out...
and when it does.
He never gets too high or too low because he knows some deals will
go bad, and some will go good... and he never lets his losses or his
gains color his evaluation of the next deal.
The man who fails bemoans his cruel fate, snakebitten from his bad
experience, never to play again in an "unfair world."
The truth is this: the world is neither fair nor unfair. It is
risky. Those who accept and manage risk succeed. Those who wish
for a world without risk will always fail.
On with the fun,
-John Alanis
"The King of Let 'em Come to You"
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