#2645 - Failure Friday: Strumming Into Silence
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
This week on Failure Friday, we tune into a venture of online guitar lessons. This post-pandemic digital adaptation missed its mark with beginners, and then faced a tough lesson on the irreplaceable value of in-person instruction.
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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.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hold that please level five, thank you. |
| 0:02.0 | Ah, you must be one of our new interns. |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah, hi, nice to meet you. |
| 0:06.0 | Hi, now the most important thing to know is to Ertz in the Bipasal-rise plug sale. |
| 0:10.0 | The most important thing is what? |
| 0:12.0 | The single most important thing is to Erz and the channelise being bingus of the |
| 0:14.8 | by parcel rise plug sale and you'll be fine. |
| 0:17.1 | Uh, yeah, that sounds important. |
| 0:20.0 | Does work chat will sound like gibberish to you? |
| 0:22.3 | Find collaborative articles with tips from the LinkedIn community |
| 0:25.0 | to help you get through those tricky conversations. |
| 0:27.0 | Making work makes make sense, LinkedIn knows how. Thank you. Welcome friends. Welcome to Side Hustle School. This is Chris Gilliboe. Today's Failure Friday episode |
| 0:46.0 | we're going to tune into a venture of online guitar lessons. As noted it's called |
| 0:50.4 | strumming into silence. This post-pandemic digital adaptation missed |
| 0:53.9 | its mark with beginners and then faced a tough lesson on the irreplaceable value of |
| 0:58.1 | in-person instruction. All right, so if you're new here you might think well this |
| 1:02.2 | doesn't sound like a very exciting business case study. |
| 1:04.5 | How am I supposed to get inspired by this? |
| 1:06.5 | Like, I'm going to hear about a business that failed? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, actually, that kind of is what you're going to hear about. |
| 1:11.0 | You're going to hear about an idea that didn't work out. And part of why we do this once a week, once a week only, is to offer a model of thinking differently about ideas, first of all, so that you kind of come up with better ideas or you understand what makes for a profitable idea. |
| 1:26.0 | And also, just as importantly, that you understand that if you do pursue an idea that doesn't work out, it's okay. |
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