#2475 - Q&A: “Failure Friday feels discouraging…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Our Failure Friday segment is a popular one—but a few listeners have pointed out that it can feel discouraging to hear about ideas that don’t work. Let’s look at this concern in some detail!
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | When people switch their dog's foods to the farmer's dog, the effects can seem like |
| 0:11.5 | magic. |
| 0:12.5 | But there's no magic involved. |
| 0:14.0 | It's simply real meat and vegetables with all the nutrients dogs need instead of highly |
| 0:17.8 | processed pellets. |
| 0:19.2 | No tricks, just smarter, healthier pet food delivered in packs portioned for your dog. |
| 0:23.5 | It's amazing what real food can do. |
| 0:25.7 | 50% off your first order at the farmersdog.com slash no magic 50. |
| 0:41.0 | I have a really interesting listener question for you today. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm actually excited to work on this episode because it's a question that's come up a couple |
| 0:48.1 | of times. |
| 0:49.1 | It's something I didn't expect. |
| 0:51.4 | When we started the failure Friday segment, I guess it was two years ago, I quickly |
| 0:55.4 | became one of our most popular segments just because we were looking at vulnerabilities |
| 1:00.2 | and mistakes and things that went wrong, as opposed to all the things that go well in |
| 1:06.4 | lots of cytosol case studies, success stories and so on. |
| 1:10.4 | But this also kind of produced not really a backlash, but just like something underneath |
| 1:14.8 | the surface that a couple of people have asked about. |
| 1:18.1 | If you're sharing stories that don't work out, can that also be discouraging? |
| 1:22.6 | It's actually meant to be encouraging, which I'll discuss here in my response, but might |
| 1:26.8 | it sometimes feel discouraging to have stories of failure? |
| 1:30.8 | So as we begin, I want to propose a couple of questions that I think are very helpful |
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