Ben Brooks on failing:
This advice has been taken too far and confused the word ‘mistake’ with ‘failure’. A mistake is touching the hot stove and burning your hand. A failure is setting yourself on fire and dying when you touched the stove. One of those two you learn from, the other kills you.
I thought this was a really good article. I enjoyed it.
Interesting.
As it applies to starting your own business maybe.
I too have worked for someone who failed at a few businesses and failed at the one I worked at with him as well. Luckily I left before it went under. He had the money, but not the skill or desire. For him failure was the only option and probably always will be.
But as they have said numerous times on The Mythbusters, “failure is always an option”. Unlike in regards to business, this isn’t always a bad thing. Some things we’ve learned only through failure or perceived failure.
I guess what I’m saying is there are too many variables. It’s not quite that simple.
It almost sounds like Ben has an axe to grind and if he does, I get that too, but don’t get too caught up in the minutia. Mistakes, failures, they are always an option. Sometimes they’re exactly what we need.