I've seen a LOT of entrepreneurs with this attitude of "well, statistically, I'm supposed to fail 9 times before I win on the 10th. So I'm currently working on my failures so I can get to my success."
I think that's a terrible way to go about a startup. Your startup should be what your passion is, and not some light-hearted lottery ticket. I've seen a lot of people who could easily do something great, but they're not even letting themselves do it. Probably because they're scared. They think they're not self-worthy or something. So they're just going through all of the "failures" in order to become worthy of achieving success?
Doesn't make much sense. Just get it right from the beginning, and don't buy into the mindset that you have to constantly fail in order to achieve. Yes, you'll make mistakes. You'll probably fail. But don't make it part of your mission statement.
Yes, I don't understand the people with the statistical mentality. I'd be more confident in the person trying to convince himself that he was like the 10% or at least the ones that work out a little bit.
The world doesn't revolve around your mentality though. But at least having a statistical mentality might encourage you to sample the idea space until you hit on something big. That's better than wasting your time on things few people care about.
I've seen a LOT of entrepreneurs with this attitude of "well, statistically, I'm supposed to fail 9 times before I win on the 10th. So I'm currently working on my failures so I can get to my success."
I think that's a terrible way to go about a startup. Your startup should be what your passion is, and not some light-hearted lottery ticket. I've seen a lot of people who could easily do something great, but they're not even letting themselves do it. Probably because they're scared. They think they're not self-worthy or something. So they're just going through all of the "failures" in order to become worthy of achieving success?
Doesn't make much sense. Just get it right from the beginning, and don't buy into the mindset that you have to constantly fail in order to achieve. Yes, you'll make mistakes. You'll probably fail. But don't make it part of your mission statement.