There was a journey in being an entrepreneur. It was about going through failure and bouncing back. Are you going to bounce back and take the chance to go to bat again, or let this failure stop you? If you look at all of the ultimate success stories, both personally and professionally, they all had to bounce back at one time or another.
What can you learn from failure that you can’t from success? A: Nobody wants to be a failure. At the same time, there’s no better education for an entrepreneur than failure. You can go to Harvard or Stanford, but that’s not where you get your education. That’s where you build relationships, but it’s not what teaches you to have whatever it takes to get through whatever you need to go through to build a startup.
Can you have success without failure? A: No, I don’t think so. I just don’t know anyone, even if their first startup company was successful, that didn’t bang their head plenty of times. Many went through failures in order to find success. Even the Microsofts and the Apples all had intermittent failures along the way.
You can have success day in and out, but I’ve found that to sustain the energy and enthusiasm that’s going to get you farther, you have to deal with more no’s then yes’s. You need both, there’s no question. But plenty of people [experiencing] startup failures understand that failure is a part of the process — they just hope they can skip it. It’s not like you go out and say, “I’ll have two failures and then have success.”
Does it ever become easier to fail? A: What does become easier is to bounce back. That’s really the most important thing — to get back up at the plate and to start to understand over time it’s just part of the process. And that you have to stay in the game, you don’t have more time. You’ve got right now. The next second is a crap shoot.
Thirst for blood
10:22 PM
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Kaname Kuran; Yuuki Kuran; Zero Kiryuu
《生活中让我们感动的平淡爱情》
5岁的时候，我说我爱你。
你歪着脑袋，眨着水晶般的大眼睛，
疑惑地问我：“什么意思呀？”
15岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你的脸红得像火烧云，头深深地低着，
摆弄著衣襟，你好像在笑。
20岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你把头靠在我的肩上，紧紧地挽住我的手臂， 像是下一秒我就要消失一样。
25岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你把早餐放在桌上，跑过来刮了一下我的鼻子说：
“知道了!懒虫，该起床了！”
30岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你笑着说：“你呀！要是真的爱我，就别下了班到处跑，
还有，别再忘了我叫你买的菜！”
40岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你边收拾碗筷边无表情的嘟囔着：
“行了，行了，快去给孩子复习功课去吧！”
50岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你打着毛线头也不抬：“真的？
你心里是不是巴不得我早点儿死掉。”
然后就咯咯咯地笑个不停。
60岁的时候，我说我爱你，
你笑着捶了我一拳：
死老头子!孙子都这么大了，还贫嘴！
70岁的时候，我们坐在摇椅上，戴着老花镜，
欣赏着50年前我给你的情书，
我们已经布满皱纹的手又握在了一起，
那时侯我说我爱你，
你深情地望着我，
其实你那已经皱纹满面的脸仍是那么美丽……
炉子上的开水咕嘟咕嘟地冒烟,
温馨的暖意充满了整个屋子........ ......
80岁的时候，你说你爱我。
我什么也没说，因为我流泪了，
但是那是我人生最最快乐的日子，
因为你终于说出了那句“我--爱--你。
Thirst for blood
7:10 PM
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Kaname Kuran; Yuuki Kuran; Zero Kiryuu
[Why some people almost always are successful]
Like everyone else I´ve spent some time thinking about why some people are so successful in life. And what factors in success that are under more personal control than others.
Successful people might be intelligent. Or have had a socially well connected upbringings. Or be naturally energetic and open and positive.
But a lot of the factors that make some people more successful at almost anything in life are very much under their control. And much can be improved in anyone’s life by learning from the people that have gone before us.
They make decisions and take action Right or wrong action, they take it. Either way it’s always better than making no decisions and taking no action at all. As Franklin Roosevelt said:
“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
They do things even when they don´t feel like it I think this is a pretty huge factor. A lot of us back down when we don´t want to do something, even though it may eventually bring us to a wonderful experience or goal. Successful people may not always like doing some of the things they have to do. But they do them anyway. And in the longer run that makes all the difference.
They do the most productive thing right now Instead of trapping themselves in doing productive but not so important tasks or projects they realise what’s most important and do that. And after they´re done with that they do what´s most important again. Instead of just doing a lot of things, they think and plan before they act and try to focus as much as possible of their thoughts and actions on those few very important things.
They do one thing at a time Many of them don´t seem to multi-task. Some reasons for avoiding that may be that it creates internal confusion, wastes time and spreads the multi-tasker too thinly. Instead, they do one thing and focus on that until it is done. Then they do the next thing until it is done. Focusing 100% on one task at a time will get it done quicker and better.
They have a positive attitude A negative attitude can be very damaging and limiting to one´s life. A positive one can open new doors every day. It can open your mind to new ideas and input and create or sustain great relationships. It helps you through the hard times as a successful person often sees an opportunity within what others would merely see as a problem.
Have a look at Take The Postivity Challenge for more thoughts and practical tips for creating a more positive attitude.
They have redefined failure While a lot of people see failure as a way to rationalizing the feeling of wanting to giving up or as a sign that it´s actually time to do something else successful people tend to see it more as useful feedback. They may not like to fail, but they don´t fear it – or at least they have little fear of it – and they know that if they fail they´ve been there before and they can start over again and succeed. This is of course a very useful belief and keeps successful people going while the rest have already given up.
They don´t let fear hold them back They overcome fear and slay that dragon whenever they face it. Or they may have defined or redefined reality so that fear is substantially decreased or even gone in some areas of their life.
Doing this enables you to take action on your thoughts. This pulls down the barriers in the mind and create new roads and opens up to whole new possibilities. Have a look at 5 Life-Changing Keys to Overcoming Your Fear for more on both slaying your dragons and redefining your reality to contain less fear.
They have found a purpose in life They are internally driven rather than externally driven. They do what they have a burning desire to do rather than conforming to what others think they should do. Even if what the others think may be positive and successful stuff.
The Michael Jordans, the Edisons and the Stephen Kings have figured out what they want to do in life and are doing it (or did it).
The purpose, I think, is largely why they can keep on going and be motivated while others may tire or just go and do something else that they find more purposeful. The successes love their purpose and when they aligned with it then it seems to push them forward with enthusiasm and energy through life.
They don´t get distracted When others get too caught up in everyday life to do what they really want to do the successes don´t. They can really focus on actually doing what´s important and what needs to be done. Again, this seems to go back to having a purpose and more clear sense of direction in life.
They value their time highly and plan it out well A lot of people don´t value their time that much. Successful people have a purpose in life and therefore they do. They have so much they want and an inner urge to do it and therefore need to plan well to use their days effectively.
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