Fail fast, fail often … not really

There is a lot of advice about failure out there. Some good, some bad, and some indifferent. (Anyone else have a spaghetti Western tune in your head? You’re welcome.)

The piece of advice I think is really misleading is "Fail fast, fail often." It is catchy, sure, but it also misses some key points, the main one being is that failure is only beneficial if you learn from it.

If you’re so busy failing fast and often that you don’t take the time to learn from those failures, you’ll just end up like a dog chasing a squirrel up a tree. If you enjoy barking and don’t mind that you’ll never catch the squirrel, continue as you are.

But, if you’d like to “fail forward” and be continuously improving so that you can catch a squirrel or two, then slow down between failures and take stock of the lessons those failures are providing.

And, if you’d rather skip some of those failures and learn from mine, stay tuned for what I’ll be launching in a few weeks. It will shorten your learning curve, boost your authority and visibility, and do it fast without the failures.

If you want to learn about it faster, then go to the link below and sign up for the waitlist. I’ll be dropping deets to that list only very soon.

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