When I was a child I watched a TV programme called Pinky & the Brain, which had two laboratory mice, who every night tried to take over the world. Pinky was an unintelligent sidekick to the Brain, who as his name suggests, was very clever. Each plan was as ridiculous as the previous one, which always fell short of success. The fun of each episode was watching the plans fall apart in funny ways.
Reflecting on this recently I was struck by the importance of a key part of this program. If we are to find success we firstly need to have the competence to avoid falling short of succeeding with the plan you have, but it is also very important not to be deterred by failure. Each episode would start with Pinky asking the Brain “What are we going to do tonight?”, or words to that effect, and the Brain would answer, “the same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world.”
Every successful entrepreneur or business owner is successful because they have failed many many times and learned from each failure and then tried again. Failure is an opportunity to either succeed or learn how to. If you can fail fast, learn quickly and try again, you will succeed in whatever to try to do.
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