Commercial Real Estate Pro Network

J Darrin Gross

I'd like to ask you, Spencer Hill, what is the biggest risk? 

Spencer Hilligoss  

Oh, my goodness. I love that question. And I say my goodness, because it is such a intelligent question. And I wish that someone could really couldn't go back in time yet again, and tell myself that every decision in life is a risk decision. Without exaggeration, and you and you already know this far, far better than I do because of your experiences, which is amazing. And I respect so much Darren, walk out the front door, you're making a risky decision, you know, drive your car and make an arrest decision. What is the biggest risk? I think the biggest risk as ethereal as this sounds. And I'm happy to drill down and make it less ethereal and make it more pragmatic or useful for people if they'd like, but this is genuinely what I believe. I think that the biggest risk posed to most people in life right now is a lack of curiosity. And what I mean by that is a lack of curiosity about their sources, like we're talking financially, of course, I would say they're not curious about how they make money and have what what is their money do like what they work for it. They know that they know what their income is, they know that they aren't really curious about well, do I need to does this have to be the way that I do this? What I'm curious, can I am I a human as a professional, capable of doing a different thing? Can I go do a side hustle? If I don't have any money? Could I be capable of generating a capital engine, fancy way of saying simply a way to build more investable capital outside my day job, which is more which is where most wealth is built. It's not in people's salaries. People don't build their net worth. In their day job. They build their net worth, by going out and building a business by going out and investing by going out and doing something on nights and weekends by It runs the gamut. And there's so many wonderful ways to go do that, that are free to start with and educate on now, like college courses. Sure. I'm talking pragmatic stuff. And so I encourage people to find a curiosity and that includes, I thought taxes were boring. I don't think they're always fun, but I certainly think they're pretty fun now compared to many years ago, and most people would hear that statement and think I'm absolutely crazy. And that's fine. But get sure is about your money and get curious about what you're capable of, if you are not happy with your circumstances, or if you don't have a plan B, C, D, E, F, to insulate yourself against the other many risks in the world. And so maybe I don't know if that's necessarily barking up the completely wrong tree in the wrong forest altogether. Darrin, but that's, that's what I chalk up if I had to give a single answer to what's the biggest risk is a lack of curiosity and people just sitting there to do the same thing over and over working hard, truly, is not working smart.