Spencer Corson

Because one of the things that my global experience has proven time and time and time again is that when we don't expect to see danger, we simply fail to see the warning signs that something bad is about to happen.

But the warning signs are always there and staying safe is about being willing to see them.

You know, it's kind of like sometimes feeling safe is the most dangerous thing we do.

We don't stub our toes on the things we notice.

We stub our toes on the things we don't.

But it's not like that Lego on the floor in the kitchen was hiding in wait and then slid out just as we stepped our foot down to like to ambush us.

It was always there.

We just weren't expecting to see it.

So we didn't feel the need to look.

Which is another thing about safety.

There's that old tenet in good leadership, you anticipate the needs of others.

Safety is sometimes about anticipating the idiocy of others.

Like when we're driving, we're always kind of like at this higher state of readiness because the guy who's like bobbing and weaving out of traffic or who doesn't

use the turn signal to jump in our lane like we're we're aware of the risks and so we're willing to participate and we're engaged and we're present we're ready with the countermeasures or to move or to break or to stop and like i said it's not about living in fear it's just a healthy sense of skepticism like why is this guy asking me the time when everyone has a watch and an iphone like there's no need for this guy to ask me what time it is so what's the ulterior motive

Or, yeah, that guy who's just like sitting by himself in the hotel lobby and staring at me is creeping me out.

So I'm just going to move or I'm going to not sit by myself or I'm going to get on the phone or I'm going to engage the bartender and ask who he is.

I'm not just going to.

you know, just put myself at more of a position of vulnerability because I don't want to engage.

We have to engage.

But there are ways to engage in a very friendly, very interactive, very socially dynamic and positive way that if we're wrong, we're still safe.