551: EXPERT-The Beauty of Failure, with John David Mann

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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John David Mann is an award-winning author whose books have sold more than two million copies, including the bestselling classic, "The Go-Giver,” which was rejected 22 times by publishers in New York. Not until its 23rd submission was the book published. “A lot of my books that I love the most have never found large audiences. Even on this path of writing that has worked out so well for me, I keep thinking I'm finished with failure. But failure is apparently not finished with me because it keeps happening.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.6	Number 551. I'm your host, Don Hutchison. Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone around the world
0:22.8	who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and
0:29.1	freedom. On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business
0:34.5	development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners
0:38.9	along their journeys. I'm delighted to bring you our featured expert, John David Mann. Welcome, John.
0:45.7	Hello there. It's a pleasure having you on the show. A few words about John David Mann. He's an
0:50.6	award-winning author whose books have sold more than two million copies, including the best-selling classic The Go-Giver.
0:57.0	As a teenager, he started his own high school.
1:00.3	His book, Take the Lead, was named by Tom Peters in the Washington Post Best Leadership Book of 2011.
1:06.8	His latest book, a quote, culinary parable, is called The Recipe, a story of lost love and the ingredients of greatness.
1:15.2	Well, John, today's topic is one of my favorites, actually, the beauty of failure.
1:21.1	The beauty of failure.
1:21.9	I guess as a lifelong entrepreneur, you've got to understand failure, right?
1:24.5	Yes, I think so.
1:26.0	So take the stage and just lay the groundwork for this discussion.
1:30.2	Failure, you know, it is, as you say, if you're an entrepreneur,
1:32.9	and I think everybody who is alive and breathing air on this earth is an entrepreneur in the sense
1:38.4	that you're creating your own life, no matter what you do or where you were.
1:41.9	We all create our lives.
1:44.1	Failure is your companion because basically we're not very good at controlling the universe.
1:48.9	We do try.
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