If you want to succeed more rapidly, double your failure rate.

How does that even make sense?

And I started reading into it, like researching it.

And essentially what he's saying is you want to find out what doesn't work quickly. Because if you're afraid of failure, here's what you're going to do. You're going to do everything you cannot be to fail. And then you're going to play right in the middle of everything. and you're going to play really, really safe and never do anything that may fail because failure is a problem.

But you don't know what leads to success right now. play really, really safe and never do anything that may fail because failure is a problem.

But you don't know what leads to success right now.

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The meeting, the reason that I ended up here was because about nine, 10 months ago,

if somebody recommended I give a talk to this online conference, it was supposed to be in person

with anyone online in Wisconsin. I've never been to Wisconsin my life. I don't know anybody in

Wisconsin. I had no idea who was going to be on this meeting or if anybody was going to be on this meeting. We had to submit an abstract. Maddie and I submit an abstract. It got accepted and I then went to present. Now initially it was supposed to be face to face. I'm not that nervous anymore in front of people. By the way, that's just by sheer exposure, right? Being a professor for a decade and having to get out in front of a group of 300, 400 new students twice a semester, every semester for about 10 years, really trains you to get out in front of people you've never met before in your life, especially when you teach statistics, which is a class nobody wants to take.

So you know for a fact that everybody in front of you would rather be anywhere

else than sitting in front of you. It's a good training to get people upset. I'm going to go

back to that in a second about the training part of it. So I went presented. There were weirdly

300 people on that call with Wisconsin. There could have been three. I had no idea how many people

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