Famous Failures

A lot of very successful people started out with quite spectacular failures; here’s a few examples

This is a good video. Not mine, just found it on YouTube after doing some work with a client around fear of failure.

It feels a little incomplete without an erudite quote, so here’s a favourite:

“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”

Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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