Molly Graham

I'm curious, how do you know when you shouldn't?

How do you know when it's something you shouldn't do?

One thing you said was when you're in emotions and anger, but just more broadly too, when shouldn't you?

I love that.

I love that definition.

I've never heard the difference between fearlessness and courage, but it really resonates with some of the stuff you said around just being grounded in what's making you afraid, but also in what you want.

And if you have that, then

you can take a risk knowing why.

Right.

Yeah.

I genuinely think most people think I'm either good or bad at this and that's like a fixed thing inside of me and my life and my personality.

I'm either a risk taker or I'm not.

And you've made it a practice of something that you are trying to get better at.

And I think you can like unlock that for people, which is that this isn't a fixed thing.

This is something that you can practice daily, you know, or weekly.

One of the things I really wanted to talk to you about, because you wrote a book on management, it makes you realize that those risks can feel really different depending on how much power someone has, particularly at work, but probably true in life as well.

I'm curious how you think about the role of management and risk.

Yeah.

I'm curious what you think about the phrase safe space or something like that.

Because I do think one definition of a great manager is someone who makes it safe