Money and Finance
- 8 Things The World’s Most Successful People All Have In Common
UPDATE: An important question to think about if you read the article below is--as Peter Bevelin discussed in my interviews with him--Compared to what? Are there not many people that have done those 8 things and failed? As Peter said in our interview:...
- Richard Fisher On Econtalk
Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the problems with "too big to fail"--the policy idea that certain financial institutions are too large to face the bankruptcy or failure and need...
- Scott Adams: How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big
A couple of things on Scott Adams (the creator of "Dilbert") and his new book. WSJ: Scott Adams' Secret of Success: Failure HBR: Scott Adams on Whether Management Really Matters Book: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the...
- The Antifragile Organization: Embracing Failure To Improve Resilience And Maximize Availability
Found via @nntaleb. Failure is inevitable. Disks fail. Software bugs lie dormant waiting for just the right conditions to bite. People make mistakes. Data centers are built on farms of unreliable commodity hardware. If you’re running in a cloud environment,...
- Notes From Tim Harford's Book "adapt"
Via Farnam Street: Biologists have a word for the way in which solutions emerge from failure: evolution. ... Disconcertingly, given our instinctive belief that complex problems require expertly designed solutions, it is completely unplanned. Astounding...
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Robert Greene quote on failure and trying out your ideas
From the book Mastery:
“Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are afraid, or because you are waiting for the perfect time. This kind of failure you can never learn from, and such timidity will destroy you. The second kind comes from a bold and venturesome spirit. If you fail in this way, the hit that you take to your reputation is greatly outweighed by what you learn. Repeated failure will toughen your spirit and show you with absolute clarity how things must be done. In fact, it is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt. You will fail to question the element of luck, making you think that you have the golden touch. When you do inevitably fail, it will confuse and demoralize you past the point of learning. In any case, to apprentice as an entrepreneur you must act on your ideas as early as possible, exposing them to the public, a part of you even hoping that you’ll fail. You have everything to gain.”
- 8 Things The World’s Most Successful People All Have In Common
UPDATE: An important question to think about if you read the article below is--as Peter Bevelin discussed in my interviews with him--Compared to what? Are there not many people that have done those 8 things and failed? As Peter said in our interview:...
- Richard Fisher On Econtalk
Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the problems with "too big to fail"--the policy idea that certain financial institutions are too large to face the bankruptcy or failure and need...
- Scott Adams: How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big
A couple of things on Scott Adams (the creator of "Dilbert") and his new book. WSJ: Scott Adams' Secret of Success: Failure HBR: Scott Adams on Whether Management Really Matters Book: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the...
- The Antifragile Organization: Embracing Failure To Improve Resilience And Maximize Availability
Found via @nntaleb. Failure is inevitable. Disks fail. Software bugs lie dormant waiting for just the right conditions to bite. People make mistakes. Data centers are built on farms of unreliable commodity hardware. If you’re running in a cloud environment,...
- Notes From Tim Harford's Book "adapt"
Via Farnam Street: Biologists have a word for the way in which solutions emerge from failure: evolution. ... Disconcertingly, given our instinctive belief that complex problems require expertly designed solutions, it is completely unplanned. Astounding...