Choose Entrepreneurship Over Employment
Choose Entrepreneurship Over Employment
If you’ve ever felt like a slave to your job, you’re not alone. And you’re not wrong, Nassim Taleb calls out organizations for thriving on restrictions and thus getting you to put your skin in the game - for their benefit. Perhaps it is time to break free and venture out on your own? This episode shows you how.
Decision-Making
Investing
Risk-Taking
Content Rating: U
Episodes
1. Make Sure You Have Something To Lose
01:45 min
For a more rational, fair world, people need to have skin in the game—have a stake in the outcome. For that, they need to bring in symmetries, take responsibility for the consequences of their actions, says Nassim Taleb. Learn the importance of risk-taking and symmetry in this episode.
2. Will Your Boss Walk Away Unscathed?
03:09 min
What does skin in the game mean? And why does it matter? Watch this episode to understand this over-4000-year-old concept and why it still matters today. You'll also learn the importance of sharing the benefits and the harm cause by an action. Stay tuned!
3. Pick A Cook Who Eats Their Own Cooking
02:03 min
People who invest in their own ventures are the ones you ought to work with. Watch this episode to find out why working with people who have skin in the game will help you achieve better results.
4. Minority Wins
02:45 min
We’ve heard it all our lives, from every source. “Majority rules.” But Taleb believes that minorities run the world. Why? Watch this video to find out.
5. Choose Entrepreneurship Over Employment
01:34 min
If you’ve ever felt like a slave to your job, you’re not alone. And you’re not wrong, Nassim Taleb calls out organizations for thriving on restrictions and thus getting you to put your skin in the game - for their benefit. Perhaps it is time to break free and venture out on your own? This episode shows you how.
6. How To Pick A Doctor
02:11 min
If you had to pick a surgeon from two equally senior professionals, which one would you choose? The one who looks distinguished and elegant, well dressed and a refined accent? Or someone overweight and badly dressed, with a strong accent and no wall of degrees in his office? Taleb suggests going with the latter. Find out why.
7. The Virtue Of Courage
02:17 min
Courage allows you to be virtuous in more ways than one. It is also a virtue you cannot fake. This episode tells you how to find true courage and stand up for the truth.
8. The Silver Rule Rules
01:51 min
Nassim Taleb flips the Golden Rule around-- ‘Do unto others as you would have them do to you’--and creates a Silver Rule. Find out how Taleb’s resulting Double Negative Golden Rule is more robust and inclusive than the original time-tested one, in this episode.