Be bold
Un pasaj cu inspirational din “Screw it, let’s do it” a lui Richard Baranson:
In 2004 I [Richard Branson] made a TV series, “The Rebel Billionaire”. The final episode had a twist at the end. I offered a prize winner, Shawn Nelson, a cheque for one million dollars – but there was a catch. He could take the cheque or toss a coin for an even bigger mystery prize. If he lost the toss, he would lose it all. I held out the cheque. He took it and saw the long line of zeros. Then I took it back and put it in my hip pocket. I held out a silver coin.
Which one will it be? I said. The coin or the cheque?
Life is full of hard choices. Which one would he [Shawn] go for?
Shawn looked shaken. It was a huge gamble. All or nothing. He asked me, ‘what would you do, Richard?’
It’s up to you’, I said. I could have told him, ‘I take risks, but they are calculated risks. I weigh up the odds in everything I do. Instead I said nothing. He had to make up his own mind.
Shawn walked back and forth, trying to decide. It was tempting to gamble. It would make him look cool. Also, the unknown prize might be amazing. At last, he said he couldn’t risk losing that much money on the toss of a coin. He owned a small company and with the money he could help grow his business and his employees.
… ‘I’ll take the cheque’, he said.
I was pleased. ‘If you had gone for the coin toss, I would have lost all respect for you’ I said.
He made the right choice and didn’t gamble on something that he couldn’t control. He got the million dollars and the mystery prize. The big prize was to be president of Virgin for three months. Virgin has over 200 companies so Shawn would learn a lot. It was a golden chance.
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