If You’re Not Losing, You’re Not Learning

If you encounter someone who claims to have a perfect record, and says he has never lost in some field of endeavor, take the claim with a grain of salt. Statements like this can be misleading, and often do not tell the whole story. If you want to learn and grow, you need to know that you’re going to lose. And you will lose a lot! Someone with a perfect record may not have taken sufficient risks. If you cherry-pick all your battles, and never challenge yourself, you’re not going to learn and grow.

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You Have To Embrace Your Failures! (Podcast)

A reader emails me with a question about a painful failure he just experienced. He wants to know if I’ve experienced similar setbacks, and how I’ve handled them. I give my thoughts on the subject, and arrive at some general rules.

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You Don’t Know To A Certainty (Podcast)

Some guys look upon knowledge with a purely utilitarian view. They think that if something is not helping them that very instant, then it has no value. This view is shortsighted and terribly wrong. You never know what life has in store for you, and if you’re presented with an opportunity to learn, you take it and soak it up. We use a recent example to discuss this point further.

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