From the full episode: The Best Advice for Overthinkers

Overthinking is the polite name for fear, and Lara Morgan, founder of Pacific Direct, has a working cure for it. In this clip from The BEYOND Podcast with Aleksandra King, she explains the mental arithmetic she learned young and still applies to every decision across her portfolio.

Sometimes you will get things wrong. Most of the time, as she puts it, you are not killing someone: make the call, take the lesson, and keep moving.

Full transcript

Lara Morgan: Okay. I spent awful lot of time living life. What you don't wanna do is spend any time regretting. Team is everything. Absolutely. You're not gonna do this alone. I mean, if it gets the job done, just 'cause it's not your way, learn that it doesn't bloody matter. You cannot learn if you're not making mistakes. If you are surviving and keeping the lights on, you will thrive because you're years ahead of the person that's still a startup. What's the worst thing that can happen? Lara,

Aleksandra King: Oh … Lara Morgan:, with a Dale Carnegie course about this thing where you can write the as is versus the should be, right? And you, you kind of class where you wanna be in five years' time in writing, and then you go, "So where are we now?" And you do this, then I've got this other skill set learnt at Stanford, which is you walk the wall, which is you write, right, in five years' time, this is where we wanna be. Yeah. What are the things we have to do? Mm-hmm. And we break it down, we chunk it into periods of time, and we go, so in that case, the first absolutes are these targets and goals, and then you've got the next set of g- targets and goals. Yeah. But you don't do it on your own. You get your team to walk the wall with you- Mm … and to write things on large bits of paper, and it's bringing the team on the journey, and then hopefully they'll be here in five years' time and we'll get really drunk together or whatever- Yeah is our flavor, 'cause I don't drink very much. But- Yeah … you know, whatever is, the effort, it, it, team is everything. And, you know- It's important … you're not gonna do this alone. So, so-

Lara Morgan: It's, but I mighta got it wrong. You just have some- Mm. It's not, so what? Why doesn't- Yeah … why don't we all live by that Dale Carnegie saying, "What's the worst thing that can happen?" Because the truth is, and very sadly at the moment, is usually somebody doesn't die Right? And it's disproportionately-

Aleksandra King: Okay

Lara Morgan: Most of the time you ain't killing someone.

Aleksandra King: You ain't killing someone. That- that's such good advice for today's times because we are all living in fear, and we all think, "Oh, no, I can't do this, and I can't take that risk, and I can't put myself out there, and I can't start up a

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