Failure is the key to success
Failure is the key to success only if you learn from it fast and cheaply. These passages show how to fail small, read what the failure tells you, and try again.
Failure is the key to success: what the books say.
Failing is an intrinsic part of the human condition. At the top or the bottom, each of us faces our own challenges. The successful, those we see as infallible and invincible, are not immune to this phenomenon. In fact, their visibility and high profile often make their failures more public and possibly more painful.
From You Are Not a Failure, chapter 1: Deciphering failure
Delegating became my new mantra, my morning coffee philosophy. I’m not going to lie, at first, it was as hard as letting someone else choose my Spotify playlist. But over time, and seeing how others took my tasks and transformed them into something better, something bigger, was when I realized that delegating was not losing, but gaining. Gaining time, gaining perspective, gaining the possibility of dreaming big while others laid the bricks on the wall of progress.
From You Are Not a Failure, chapter 2: Starting up among ruins
The second is that your right-hand column comes out empty, because you genuinely can't put a number on freedom and it feels grubby to try. That's not a failure either. Try a smaller question instead. What did you turn down in the last three years in order to keep this job? A trip, a move, a Tuesday afternoon, a person. Put a number beside that one and you'll find you can price the rest.
From I Want to Start a Business but I Can't Quit My Job, chapter 4: What you are actually buying
These passages come straight from the books. So, if one of them speaks to you, read the full chapter. It goes further, and it ends with a practical exercise.
Book titles about failure is the key to success.
In addition, these titles look at failure is the key to success from different angles. Each one opens with a passage from the book. Then, pick the one closest to your situation.
- I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: The Book That Checks Your Fear Instead of Shouting at It
- I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: What the Evidence Says About the Fear of Failure
- I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Fear of Failure, Examined One Study at a Time
- I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: A Fear by Fear Audit for Anyone Who Wants to Start Something
- I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: An Evidence Based Look at the Fear of Starting a Business
- I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Thomas Aquinas, 1,500 Road Deaths and the Fear of Failure
- I Want to Start a Business but I'm a Coward: Eleven Fears, and What the Research Actually Says About Each One
- I Want to Start a Business: A Fear by Fear Check Before You Begin
Check your runway before you quit.
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