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Fail like you mean it (bigthink.com)
29 points by aswanson on Aug 15, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Video boils down to an old skiing saying: A skier says to another - "Hey, did you fall today?" the other skier responds - "No." Then the first skiers says "You didn't go fast enough or went down slopes that were way to easy."

If you aren't failing, you aren't challenging yourself enough.


His intro (first few seconds of video) scared me shitless!

edit: I've basically been failing (with a couple hard-won successes) for the last 3 years and that's exactly what I needed to hear because sometimes I'm just asking myself: "Might I be DOING IT WRONG?" (maybe I am, but oh well ;P)


Thanks for the warning!


Summary: 5 minute monologue by Dean Kamen on how and why idea -> success isn't the simple journey the media make it out to be.

Worth a watch, despite the lame title and unknown domain which led me to initially avoid it.




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