7 Things I learned about Failure
James Altucher has founded 20 different companies (at last count), ranging from hedge funds to dating websites. He has sold a few for $10 million or more but admits that most of his ventures have failed.
This guy has risen from the ashes so many times he’d make a phoenix jealous.
But failure isn’t as glorious as that analogy might paint it. It’s a gritty, dirty, a bottomless pit.
“Failure really sucks,” Altucher said. “When you fail it’s not like you say, ‘OK, I failed now. I’m here at the bottom.’ There’s no bottom. It feels infinite. It feels like it’s never going to end. It’s just going to get worse and worse.”
But, Altucher, who has been called “the Oprah of the internet” for his sage advice, explains that you can’t just get sucked into sitting at the bottom and wallowing in it.
