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My good friend Shawn Kanungo (check him out, he’s a professional speaker who has lots of great videos about the latest innovations and disruptions happening in the world) was once asked at an event what advice he had for a group of employees. He came back with something really startling — he said to do something the next day to get yourself fired.
Of course, he did not mean to do something inappropriate like hacking into the servers or stealing money from the company. What he meant was to do something risky at your workplace that people normally ask permission for from their boss or from management and rather than asking for permission, ask for forgiveness (after the fact).
His words always stuck with me (I mean he’s that kind of impactful speaker) but it is also the sort of unconventional advice that gets people to pause and reflect on some of the things that we have been doing. I have no evidence of the sort but I have this intuition that a lot of people (employees more so but may be applicable to entrepreneurs, consultants, freelancers, artists, etc.) can take more of a proactive approach and to take on a few more risks than we should.
Now I’m certainly not a huge risk taker myself but I have taken a few risks in my life that I wanted to share including the lessons that I learned from some…
