“Odds are, you’re working on a project that will fail right now”
Published on August 20th, 2009 by WebWallflower
This an amazing post recognizing why failure is frequently the necessary, especially the field of tech. Every startup founder and developer knows the feelings of failure; and if they haven’t they will. The point isn’t to avoid failure, but to embrace it, to learn from it, and to apply what you have gained to your next venture.
As this article mentions (from a study of med students and their success rates), those who claim they made no mistakes, or that problems were outside of their control are rarely the ones who succeed. It’s those students who recognize their errors, analyze them, and confidently move past them who graduate with honors and appear to find the highest levels of success. Take that to heart.
this is a great post! thanks!
oh, but i wonder if i would call them “failures” at all. i might say that they were mistakes, but i don’t think i’ve done anything really destabilizing yet in my career to be pronounced a failure. (or maybe i’m not in a career where it’s a life or death situation like surgery).
but, definitely make mistakes all the time and admit them. d’oh!
i’m sure in entrepreneurship, it’s more black or white whether something is a “failure” or not more so than perhaps other professions. though i guess i would argue to avoid the term failure and see it as a life experience and move on, which is basically what the article is saying, but in a different way.