In this episode, Scott Becker shares insights on how mindset and context help us navigate challenges and why maintaining perspective is key.
Chapter 1: What is the main theme of 'It's All Okay'?
This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Today's discussion is, it's all okay. So here's one of the mantras that we live with throughout life is, things are bad, they're good, but at the end of the day, Most of life is up and down, and it's all okay.
Chapter 2: How do ups and downs shape our lives?
And every once in a while, you do come into something that's not okay, but you have to put that in context compared to all the things that are okay. So I'll give you an example. You have so many ups and downs in life. A deal doesn't work out. You don't get what you wanted in school. A relationship messes up. There are so many pieces of life where they are up and down.
Chapter 3: What does it mean when something is not okay?
And at the end of the day, the mindset we try and take is, That it's all okay. And every once in a while, there's something that's just not okay. So a few years ago, lost a nephew to brain cancer. That was extremely sad and not okay. But to put that in context, and we talk about those injuries, not illnesses. I've had a few surgeries in the last year. At the end of the day, that's all okay.
Those are injuries that are reparable, not fun, but reparable versus someone with a cancer diagnosis, which is brutal and maybe not okay. And so many things in life, this perspective of it's bad, it's good, but it's all okay. And there are a handful of things that just aren't okay. And there's not a lot you could do about some of those things.
But so much of life, taking this prism of it's up, it's down, but it's all okay. It's how I view the stock market going up and down. It's how I view so many things. And just to view it that way and to move forward with life with that perspective of It's going to be okay is, I think, the best way to try and manage things.
Now, thank you for listening to the Becker's Private Equity and Business Podcast. I'll tell you one thing that's not okay. My tennis serve and my putting in golf. But at the big scheme of things, those are the smallest problems in life, and it's all okay. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast.