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Erik: How have you applied you’re experience walking on a college basketball team to measuring
risk and reward in your career?
Dan: There are a couple of things that happen when you take a risk that is likely not going
to work out. There is the letting go of your… letting go of your ego around the situation
which is tough to do but there’s another part which is learning to be focused on the
process not the outcome. And so, I think in everything that I’ve done where I’ve failed
or not been as successful as I’ve wanted to be, it’s just more driven home to me
that the answer is not in what the actual outcome is, whether or not I’m a star basketball
player because I’m never going to be [laugh] but more around, ‘Did I enjoy the process
and was the process something that I really got a lot of?’ And so in that example basketball,
I found out that I wasn’t that good and the process was not what I wanted to do and
another example is music or entrepreneurship I found out that is what I wanted, I liked
the process.