Mediocre Success Is Worse Than Outright Failure
Success isn’t good for curiosity.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
In his beautifully titled book “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking,” Oliver Burkeman describes how much our culture is focused on success and how we neglect the important lessons from failure (Burkeman 2013). Manager biographies are a good example: Even though all of them contain some anecdotes about setbacks, thes
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I’ll explain why kids shouldn’t be taught multiplication tables, where the fashionable “fail fast and fail often” mantra of the Lean Startup movement breaks down, and how momentum—not experience—is the single biggest predictor of business and personal success.
Shane Snow • Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
Dr Burgelman, a famous Stanford business school professor said, it is far better to have understood why you failed than to be ignorant of why you succeeded.