Lessons From The Dragon’s Den’s Robert Herjavec Part 20

December 23, 2010

The servant with the single talent said, “Master, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. I now return it to you intact.”

The master answered him, “You wicked, lazy servant! You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter. You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received it back with interest. Therefore, take away the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.”

I think Herjavec’s friend resembled the servant given the one talent who did nothing with it.  He was afraid and did no one any good by hiding his “talent” away for fear of losing it.  No one really betters themselves or their overall situation by continually avoiding risks and challenges.  They just lose what they have by not putting it to use.  As Robert Kiyosaki wrote, “the hard path eventually becomes easy, and the easy path eventually becomes hard”.

“My friend also, I suspect wanted to avoid a massive change in his life and work.  A small change – say, moving up one level in the corporate hierarchy – would be acceptable.  A major change, which climbing up three levels would certainly represent, would be challenging.  But a total change, including a new position with an entirely new company and industry, could be traumatic.

I can understand the fear of change some people feel. I just refuse to accept it.” – from Driven

People who lack an independent spirit have an inversely proportional love of routine and a structured, orderly lifestyle.  Moreover, the most dependent people often do everything they can to preserve that order in themselves and in everything and everyone around them.  This structured lifestyle leads them since they don’t have the courage or creativity for creating it themselves.  Their structured life they accept leads them, and they merely follow.

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