Mike Carruthers

Thanks for joining me today.

So what's your sense of how dangerous the world is?

Despite how anxious people get about their security and their safety, it doesn't seem like, you know, except for maybe getting an alarm system for the house and making sure you lock your front door, it doesn't seem like people do a lot to prepare for that because you can't prepare for every possible situation.

threat that could occur.

So you tend not to prepare for any threat that could occur.

So what do you suggest people do?

And so what does that mean to have a healthy skepticism?

Because you do what?

I remember hearing some security expert talk about this, and I chuckled when I heard him say this and took his advice to heart, that if you were locked out of your house and you didn't have a key and you had to basically break into your own house, you probably would know how to do it.

You probably know where that weak spot is, right?

When a criminal targets your home, what's their intention?

What are they thinking?

What is the most likely safety threat anybody faces?

Overconfidence.

Overconfidence?

So talk about that feeling that something isn't right feeling the elevator door opens and there's that guy and you go, yeah, I don't know.

And most of us just suck it up and say, well, I'm just being paranoid and get in the elevator.

And I think what often drives that decision is you don't want to offend someone.

That guy on the elevator may be giving you the creeps, but that's not who you are.

You don't want to be offensive.