Learning to Love Failure

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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I hate failure because it can cause momentary frustration, but I also love it because building something using blocks of failure helps you step up to success. Without failure, you can’t learn and move forward as a decision-maker. Don’t fear it. Welcome it. Failure is as certain as taxes. And it definitely is as certain as death. So, why fear it? You’re wasting energy being afraid of failing or you’re attracting what you don’t want: failure. Know that as you’re failing, you’re learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I was blessed to do a book with Jack Canfield,
0:02.4	chicken soup for the soul.
0:03.5	He was rejected 200 times.
0:05.3	But if I told him that he would be rejected 200 times
0:08.9	before he had the best-selling book of all times,
0:11.3	how happy would he've been when he got to 150?
0:13.9	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook.
0:15.7	So here's what's cool.
0:16.9	This is gonna throw you way back
0:18.3	because it's completely pragmatic,
0:20.4	monetary solution to the problem.
0:22.8	That I tell young people with what they want,
0:26.1	that they need to figure out one, a direct path to that.
0:32.0	That's your goal.
0:33.0	What's my direct path to revenue?
0:35.3	Forget the business side.
0:37.1	What, if you have an idea for a business specifically,
0:40.7	what's my direct path to revenue?
0:42.9	And when you stay focused on the direct path of revenue,
0:45.2	you only need one more thing to stay in business every day.
0:48.6	And so if you have one objective to stay in business,
0:52.5	and then two, a direct path to revenue,
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