Be brave enough to suck
In 2010, Dan McLaughlin quit his job to become a professional golfer without ever having played a full round. His…
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Pick yourself up, dust yourself off
In 1950, Frank Sinatra lost his voice on stage and, soon after, his career. His quote lays out the 4…
Fall seven times and stand up
Toyota rejected 47 of Soichiro Honda’s first 50 piston rings. This Japanese proverb, and a red doll with no arms…
Failure + Reflection + Another try
In 2009, Brandon Webb lost his first startup and his life savings. His equation explains how he turned that failure…
Fail again fail better
Stan Wawrinka lost to the same player 10 times in a row, then had this quote tattooed on his arm.…
The joy of being wrong
A Nobel Prize winner walked up to Adam Grant after a talk and told him, smiling, that he’d been wrong.…
If you are not willing to be a fool
Julia Child dropped a potato pancake on live TV and kept cooking. Jordan Peterson’s quote explains why looking foolish is…
If you’re not making mistakes
When Joshua Foer’s progress stalled while training for the USA Memory Championship, he sped up a metronome to push himself…
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes
Thomas Carlyle lost a whole book to a fire after lending out his only copy. His quote explains how to…
I never learned anything
At 19, Bobby Jones tore up his scorecard at St Andrews and walked off. Six years later he won there.…