Make It With Michael

http://ift.tt/2ycY2mc By Kenny Kline It’s almost a cliché by now. Every book, every blog and every lecture by every entrepreneur seems to feature the same story: before the big lucky break that took that person to the top, they experienced a series of crushing, discouraging failures. The takeaway from this is always the same old chestnut: don’t be afraid of failure and follow your dreams. But I think perhaps that’s overly simplistic. What truly distinguished these entrepreneurs and their successes was not that they weren’t afraid to fail, but rather that they learned from the failures that ultimately led to their successes. Ultimately, it was their attitude of learning that inspired their success, not the failures themselves. I believe that a failure to learn from failure itself can be a fatal blind spot for even the most driven of entrepreneurs. With all of the articles doing the rounds about the importance of failure , I want to use this post to take a serious look at a few am...

By Kenny Kline It’s almost a cliché by now. Every book, every blog and every lecture by every entrepreneur seems to feature the same story: before the big lucky break that took that person to the top, they experienced a series of crushing, discouraging failures. The takeaway from this is always the same old chestnut: don’t be afraid of failure and follow your dreams. But I think perhaps that’s overly simplistic. What truly distinguished these entrepreneurs and their successes was not that they weren’t afraid to fail, but rather that they learned from the failures that ultimately led to their successes. Ultimately, it was their attitude of learning that inspired their success, not the failures themselves. I believe that a failure to learn from failure itself can be a fatal blind spot for even the most driven of entrepreneurs. With all of the articles doing the rounds about the importance of failure , I want to use this post to take a serious look at a few amazing entrepreneurs wh...