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Turn Your Flaws Into Fuel with Shark Tank Investor Matt Higgins

Smart People Podcast

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The Importance of Burning the Boats

Higgins: I became obsessed with this idea of Burn the Boats as phrasing when he worked at the New York Jets and we were in a skid. "I realized, you know, the most radical decision I had ever made when my back was against the wall was when I was growing up poor and desperate," Higgins says. 'If you're someone who's worried, you won't succeed, you've already failed'

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