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Eric Saylors

Sep 21, 2026

1:30
So thank you and good morning.
1:32
Good morning.
1:32
Thank you so much.
1:34
Boy, I don't think I could say it better than I said it before and he just said it back to me.
1:38
So then I'm going to jump right into the mindset of the process of why we have our two guests on today.
1:46
And I'm just super honored to be around them again.
1:50
And if I can... go back into the Wayback Machine of when I was thinking about this problem and then how to practically make a change.

56 MINS LATER

57:43
So, I mean, where did that come from, Chief? That in 2011, you were asking people to look at themselves and start developing their soft skills.
47:18
So it doesn't matter how curious you are, that Dunning Kruger is still there, because the less you know, the more you overestimate your And that's just a hard mountain to overcome in a bubble.
47:31
It is.
47:33
You're not going to invent calculus by yourself, right? Yes.
47:38
You're going to want to use it, right? Right.
47:42
But that's an example.
47:44
And if you go back and you look at every person we put on a pedestal as being a breakaway genius, like the example I just used, Newton, or even the cliche of Einstein, and you dig into those people's histories, you realize they weren't geniuses either.
48:03
They...

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56:30
The person below controls that relationship.
11:06
Can you say a little bit more about that?
11:08
Yeah.
11:09
So we, we've been studying firefighter deaths for a long time.
11:13
Um, every time a firefighter dies in a fire the incident gets investigated.
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There is a government entity that comes and investigates all of these deaths, and we see the results.
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And what we see are some persistent trends.
11:29
We call them the NIOSH 5.

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26:59
Okay.

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