Tag Archives: Failure

Failure Gives Perspective

Posted on March 8, 2012 by AJ Kessler

That was the lowest moment I had yet encountered in my life. The phones in my office were even quiet, which had never happened before. In fact, I suddenly had a lot of quiet time to think, and I reviewed … Continue reading →

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Why Sharing Your Goals Dooms You To Failure

Posted on March 3, 2012 by AJ Kessler

If you want to accomplish something, it makes sense to tell people about it.  After all, you might be able to collaborate with someone already working on something similar, or gain some ideas and insights from someone who has done … Continue reading →

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Cultivate Failure

Posted on February 8, 2012 by AJ Kessler

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” – Winston Churchill Failure is part of all entrepreneurial processes.  Even if you’re wildly successful right out of the gate, even if you’re Facebook, … Continue reading →

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Success and Failure: You’re Thinking About It Wrong

Posted on January 11, 2012 by AJ Kessler

We dream that someday soon, someone will recognize our genius: a big time agent reads our script and signs us; a major creative director sees our work and is compelled to feature it; the CEO reads about a project we … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs on Failure

Posted on January 6, 2012 by AJ Kessler

I’ve never found anyone who didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help.  Most people never pick up the phone and call; most people never ask.  And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people who do things and … Continue reading →

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Choose Your Friends Wisely

Posted on December 5, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Who has a bigger influence on the person you turn out to be: your parents or your friends? Since at least the days of Freud, psychologists believed parents were the overwhelming factor in how their children turned out.  But, it … Continue reading →

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You CAN Argue With Success

Posted on November 10, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Arguing with failure is pretty tough.  By definition, there’s nothing left to argue with.  It’s dead.  You can argue about failure, who’s to blame, or what caused this or that to happen, but there’s usually not a whole lot to … Continue reading →

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The Secret To Success Is Failure

Posted on September 27, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Dominic Randolph is the headmaster at an elite New York prep school.  His clientele is made up of offspring of New York’s elite, a group of rich and powerful people who fork over $38,500 for pre-kindergarten.  These kids, you might … Continue reading →

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Poke The Box

Posted on April 29, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Not only do I think Seth Godin’s new manifesto, Poke The Box, is worth reading, I think there’s some ideas in it that are so important I’m putting them down here so I don’t forget them.  The book is only … Continue reading →

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Failure Is Good

Posted on April 26, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Most people are afraid of failure.  I know I certainly am at times.  The problem is, failure is often the best way to learn.  When you succeed at something difficult or amorphous, you usually don’t know why: a lot of … Continue reading →

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