"Part: 10 Listen to Michael Davis's In Search Of Heroes Interview" by Ralph Zuranski
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Ralph Zuranski: Yeah. I know there are a lot of people who say that you should never go into debt to achieve your dreams. There are other people who say that you can utilize the capital of others to fulfill your dreams you will achieve it a lot faster than if you tried to finance it on your own.
Michael Davis: Well, I do a lot of work in education. I do a lot of work with the school systems. I do a lot of work with kids and I hear parents telling their kids not to take out student loans. I think that is the stupidest thing that you can tell somebody.
Take out the student loan. Go to college. Get a good job and pay the loan back or don’t take out a student loan, don’t go to college, starve and die.
Ralph Zuranski: Yeah. (Laughter)
Michael Davis: I’m debt free now but I pretty much had a lot of debt.
Ralph Zuranski: Do you think that by having that debt it helped you get to where you are now?
Michael Davis: Once again, I have a goal and I’ve had a goal for a pretty long time. In this day and age especially you can’t really go to college without getting some sort of financial aid. For people to make decisions who are 18 years old that they don’t want to take out a bank loan, to me it’s my personal opinion that’s just crazy.
The whole thing about the student loan is that it helps you get through school. Then when you get out of school and you get a job you pay it back. That’s a beautiful thing. The debt I’ve accumulated in my life is mostly that kind of debt, student loans and business things.
Ralph Zuranski: What is your definition of heroism?
Michael Davis: I think it’s the way you act and the good things you do when you don’t expect any rewards or when people aren’t looking. I think a real hero is somebody who makes a decision to do something to help someone else just because they can.
This may be a little bit controversial thing to say but not too long ago there was a sport, I won’t even mention the sport because you’ll know what I’m talking about, but let’s just say it was a very dangerous sport and a very big, big star was killed doing this. All of these people were calling him a hero.
That’s not a hero. The guy got paid a lot of money to do what he loved to do. That’s not a hero. A hero is the fireman who goes into a burning building who makes not a whole lot of money as a fireman. You’ve got to have a certain kind of drive to do that.
A hero is the guy who takes care of his family. A hero is the man who won’t desert his girlfriend if she gets into trouble. A hero is a man who takes care of his son. I don’t know who my father is but he ain’t no hero.
Ralph Zuranski: Yeah.