I‘ve had a long day. This year has been a really long, tough year. A year of growth and challenges (good ones). And I’m exhausted.
So forgive me as I attempt to articulate a relatively disjointed and off-the-cuff thought at 1am…
As I was driving across town on the freeway tonite – making my way home – I began reflecting on what I’m trying to do in this chapter of my life. As I’ve set out to be an entrepreneur over the course of the last three years, I’ve studied the ideas shared by many brilliant entrepreneurs who have gone before me. One of the most impressive ideas I’ve picked up during this study is the idea of failure.
The reality in life is that you fail 100 times over for every success you have. That being the case, it really should not be that big of a deal. Yet failure hits our hearts so hard. We’re terrified of it. We do everything we can to avoid it when it’s utterly unavoidable. We experience constant anxiety about our work (which is the emotion of experiencing failure before it even happens – a hopelessly absurd state of mind), worried that the others we work with will come to think we’re totally incompetent if we don’t deliver an A+. [continue reading…]
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“Good Enough” Isn’t Good Enough Anymore
by Ernest on August 4, 2010
Iremember when I first heard Bush, the band of course, not the President, and I remember thinking to myself, “Wow, this is pretty good. It’s not Nirvana but it’s pretty good”.
A few months after I heard them, they played a big show in Nashville. Sold out, as I recall. I had friends that went, it was a big deal. I stayed home and listened to Nine Inch Nails and practiced 360 flips in my driveway.
Looking back, I don’t think Bush could have made it past MySpace if they came along ten years later. Their music is really good, but it isn’t transcendent, and I’m not basing that on my own opinion, because I actually really like the band. But it’s not as good as Nirvana. And it sounds too much like Nirvana to be able to get away with not quite being as good.
Because of the level of noise and clutter out there, and the disposable nature of a culture of amateurs, [continue reading…]
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