Posts Tagged with "failure"

This is Why You Can’t Mess Up

Thursday, July 15, 2010

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Have you ever tried to deliberately mess something up? It’s hard to make it look convincing isn’t it? It’s impossible to create an genuine mess when you know how not to mess up. But looking at “how to mess up” isn’t what we are after, we’re always looking for ways not to mess things up [...]

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How to Rule The World in Twenty Minutes

Thursday, April 8, 2010

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What is the difference between failure and success? Or more accurately, what is the difference between learning and not learning? A very simple fact of life: You have to make mistakes in order to learn. But that isn’t where things start. The first step in learning is actually getting of your behind and getting to [...]

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Why asking Stupid Questions is a Good Thing

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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“The only stupid question is the one not asked.” A huge problem with internet I’ve talked about before is that if people perceive you as an expert you are an expert. On one side of the coin this means that you can quite easily become an expert in just about any field out there. All [...]

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Showing off with faceplants

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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Do you every lie awake at night thinking about what you would wish for if you ever got three wishes granted? At some point in our childhood I’m sure we all have these thoughts. Some smart kids usually make sure to wish for more wishes. Others just end up with the cliche’s of “rich” and [...]

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Failure is here to stay, so what’s next?

Sunday, November 1, 2009

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Failure is a part of every day life for without it we wouldn't be learning at all. Failure is level zero so to speak, it's where we start from, we have nothing, no achievements, no successes. From this starting point we embark on a journey to get where we want to be. Without exception this is "better", "successful", "loved" or perhaps "being worthy in the eyes of others". Nobody goes forth in life trying to be miserable after all, we all have our golden dreams.

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The failed blogchallenge and the growing blog

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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Some time ago I started a blogchallenge. My challenge was to grow my blog by 1600% in three months, which ment the following OR I have more than 500 pageviews a day for 7 consecutive days. OR I have more than 300 subscribers to my RSS feed This challenge is the reason why I’ve been writing [...]

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Embrace failure, it’s your best friend in life

Friday, July 10, 2009

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Cath Duncan from mineyourresources.com made a comment a while back on one of my blogposts (What all the “get rich” Blogs don’t tell you) I’d going to have a closer look at today: I totally agree that action is what makes the difference in results – even imperfect action. In improv storytelling they have the [...]

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The Quarter-life crisis won’t take me down

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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You might have heard of this one. The quarter-life crisis is a phase you go through somewhere in your twenties or as Wiki puts it “a term applied to the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence, usually ranging from the early twenties to the early thirties.” It’s a phase where all [...]

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