Parr: Immigrant hardship removes the fear of taking minor business losses
Sam Parr · $1M By 19, $100M+ By 35 -- Here's How He Did It · Jan 26, 2022 · at 34:17
Host Sam Parr and entrepreneur Val Katayev discuss what psychological traits enable high-volume business experimentation and extreme risk tolerance.
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“There's this thing, particularly I find it amongst immigrants or children of immigrants. And maybe because they've like experienced some type of hardship where they're like, dude, I've experienced some crazy shit or my family has experiencing, has experienced crazy shit. I have zero fear and looking like a fool. If that's the worst, if the worst that's gonna happen is I'm gonna look stupid or lose a tiny amount of money. I'm okay with that.”
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