Human beings have an intrinsic desire for their life to be ‘about something’, to leave a legacy and to exist for a reason that is greater than themselves. This legacy may be financial, it may be the creation of a product, item or business, it may be fame or power. Aspirations of “success” are a [...]
Read More failure, fundamental law of success, successI am literally stealing this from a blog of someone who I respect and admire, Scott Barlow, but our outlook on life is very much the same. I want to link you to this awesome article by James Dyson entitled, ‘In Praise of Failure’. At the beginning of this article the bold statement is made [...]
Read More failure, James Dyson, never fear failureLast week I wrote a blog entitled, What happened to thenerve.tv? which was Part 1 of an attempt to explain what has happened to an idea that I had been working on for some time. In Part 1 I explained that there had been some distance between two projects that I have worked on and I [...]
Read More failure, lessons learnt, Rock ControlI have been involved in launching two businesses, thenerve.tv and Rock Control, each of which had high hopes, dreams and intentions but both just simply didn’t work out. I now feel that I have some distance from these ideas in order to accurately reflect on why they did not work out in the hope that [...]
Read More Endemol, failure, thenerve.tvHow many times did it take Edison to make the light bulb? Various quotes suggest between 5 – 10,000. How many attempts have there been to find a cure for cancer? Hundreds. How many businesses start as one business proposition but end up as something completely different? Many. One recent case in point is Groupon, which [...]
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