I have listened or read a few articles (a few thousand of them. Just remember that I never, never, never, ever exaggerate!) concerning the value of learning through your failures. Some even advocate to fail early and fail often so that you can learn and eventually be successful. Not me. I don’t plan to fail. In fact, I have never planned to fail. I only ever plan to succeed. This does not mean I haven’t failed. I have and have done so in some very large ways. But normally, I have mitigated well before such a failure is catastrophic. And yes, I do learn from them. Even before becoming a businessperson (oh so pc), it was one of my employers who set me up in management and perhaps in my future by teaching me exactly what not to do! Was that learning by failing, well, yes in a way, the failures of others. But that doesn’t mean for every observed failure, you can’t make it work. A little more careful planning might just make your venture a success.
No, planning to fail is not an option. The best thing any businessperson can do is to learn from success. Perhaps from the success of others. But that will only get you so far, as me too products or services can only take you so far. To be the leader, to be the innovator and to have others copy you is a real sign of success and as they continue to follow instead of innovate, you will remain on the front foot. And to learn by your own success and then repeating that success is the real secret. Doing over and over again those things that make you money, make you happy, give you balance will make you even more successful.
So when you next ask me ‘How are you doing?’ and you know I am going to say “Fantastic!”, after which I will most likely say something like, “Same, same.” it is because I believe in the science of repeating your successes and learning from them.
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