chuckle I got a question regarding the quote if there is a doubt there's no
doubt alright remember that yeah the last time okay this would seem to
indicate avoiding taking risks many many businesses or many business decisions
involve risk often there can be a doubt about either of two options doubt that
you should maintain the status quo and doubt about pursuing a new opportunity
to frequent or you frequently talk about dichotomies would you mind sharing your
thoughts on this principle yeah this is this is a classic thing and and it's a
great point and that's why these little sound bites can be a little bit
dangerous sometimes a little power sound bites because they are that simple and
of course I love I like things to be simple right that's the number two law
of combat is to keep things simple but sometimes things like this need a little
bit of amplifying information and yes this could be construed as being
extremely risk-averse and like hey if I have any doubt about the safety of
success of this mission that we're not gonna do it which if that was the case
then I would have done a zero missions during my deployments to Iraq same with
business never would have started victory MMA never would have started
echelon front because there was risk involved in starting those things never
would have done anything really because there's always gonna be done so this is
a accurate statement and of course every business has risk and so so I guess that
idea that if there is a doubt there is no doubt it's not to be taken literally
when it comes to risk when it comes to risk don't take it literally but what it
should be I think is like a a warning right like a little warning that's in
your head if there's a doubt like okay we need to think about what's going on
here we need to understand what what is at risk here because and I just had this
conversation with the CEO of a company as a matter of fact let's talk about
that I caught me of leadership I was talking about how you know giving him
examples like for instance in and he was in a technology company and I said you
know if you didn't take risk you wouldn't you wouldn't make any progress
but if you took too much risk you wouldn't be where you are right now
because they're dominating so it's like oh you're you're balancing that
dichotomy all the time so if you would have said hey if there was a doubt there
is no doubt you never would have gotten off the ground now where I think it
becomes a more solid statement is from like a moral or an ethical standpoint
and that is if you think that something is wrong all that it probably is think
you're doing something that you probably shouldn't be doing then there's doubt
and you probably shouldn't be doing it I think an easy way to keep yourself in
check and these days it's a very real possibility is just if you think that
you're being recorded at all times like if you just think oh I'm being recorded
which probably somebody is recording you yeah like if you decide you think you
can get away with something you're probably not gonna get away with it look
at all the just go watch YouTube you're the caught in the act or whatever people
need call all the time so whatever you're doing think that there could be
somebody there with a phone recording you and I think that's keeps you a
morally and ethically in check you know I used to tell my guys that you could be
getting watched by CNN or Al Jazeera or some reporter you know whoever you you
know you could be getting watched and if you're doing something that you
shouldn't be doing you're you're gonna get caught so don't do it not to mention
these days we got the aircraft overhead they can see everything so do with the
right thing mmm that's what you do you do the right thing yeah
if you have any doubt that what you're doing is the right thing then you should
probably shouldn't do it a lot of those a lot of the horrible
police actions yeah are you know recorded by some random person with the
phone now of course I always need to point out that there's all these good
actions that take place every single day millions and millions of police do the
right thing yeah no one publishes those no one uploads those onto YouTube or
Facebook but the bad acts that are caught they're caught because someone
has a camera yeah and so like that's great advice for a cop hey act like
you're being recorded all the time yeah yeah it's yeah that's interesting well
it makes me very well might be yeah yeah so do the right thing
next question thank God I didn't have cameras when I was a kid for all the
dumb stuff I did yeah yeah oh I always want to make sure that I'm not sitting
here saying like I everyone out there should do the right thing like me yeah
yeah I'm not saying that if you thought I was saying that I'm not saying that I
apologize for even sounding them like I was as dumb and stupid as the next
person and still do dumb stuff try not to even man you don't do dumb stuff
right no it was bad when when when we had Charlie plum and Jim Conklin yeah
and I'm like thinking they're like you know hey this is the way to act right
I'm like don't put me with you guys you guys are awesome heroes and I'm just
over here yeah yeah don't say that about me you guys can say like a talk about
character you have character I'm just over here yeah