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What have you learned the most from failure?
Failure is one of the best educators and whilst it hurts at the start it can really set you up for success. What have you learned from failure?
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Farooq (SF Ali) Zafar
1. There is no "failure", there is only experience.
2. One's "failure" is another's extreme "success".
3. "Failure" is a state of mind, not a state of being.
4. Commitment starts and consistency finishes.
5. Ease threatens progress more than hardship.
6. "Success" is romanticized as "failure" demonized.
7. Internal contentment > external expectations.
8. Nobody cares about your W/L like you assume.
9. Perfection is shooting the shot, not scoring.
10. "Failure": things didn't go my way? That's life.
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Failure is a part of life. It is a stepping stone to success.
teaches you about yourself and your capabilities. Learning from it is important
@kambanthemaker Definitely first one I used to obsess over what tech I used thinking people cared
The best strategies and ideas can still fail. If you succeed once and stop, you might soon find yourself out of business or struggling to survive. Successful entrepreneurs face failure, learn from it, and keep moving forward.
- The inability to learn from the mistakes of others has already taken away several years of my life. I do too many actions “for experience”, but my head is not made of iron — if it constantly beats against the wall, then one day I may not get up.
- Creating a technological product alone is the same as trying to move a mountain. Either you have to crush rocks for ages and drag them, or you will break yourself at the very beginning of the journey. Startup needs a stable team, and it needs an organized leader.
- There is no point in developing an MVP for months — it burns motivation and does not bring money. Rapid testing of hypotheses is the thing we need. Getting out to users as soon as possible and collecting feedback is the highest good. A detailed market research at the stage of the developing of an idea is the best solution that allows to nip 90% of unpromising projects in the bud.
- We should not "play" too much with manual labor, especially if there are not enough hands. It quickly becomes a routine, and a routine that does not bring high results kills the desire to do what seemed to be a favorite thing three months ago.
- Planning is a thankless task, but I can't find like-minded people without a plan. I've enjoyed inventing startups for too long and disliked building a working business for too long.
@sergey_arlov This. "There is no point in developing an MVP for months", see it time and time again and I've done it myself. Waiting until something is perfect it will never launch
@aaronoleary, yes, exactly! "There is nothing more eternal than temporary things". It's always like "Well, we are not good enough, let's make it a bit better and then launch". but you never know are you good enough or not if this opinion is only in your own head. I have had many many similar situations, so I understand you 100%
@aaronoleary and I'm very happy that we didn't repeat this mistake when we launched Listva 2 days ago. Yes, there is only one function in MVP, but we have the opportunity to constructively and substantively communicate with users, listen to feedback and adjust the strategy of development
Your circle influence you a lot!
I launched my first startup back in 2018. As a tech founder, most of my connections were from dev community. They used to talk and brag a lot about how cool their tech stacks are in their company or for a pet project.
This is not a bad thing and this is how dev world works anyway. But I felt low as everyone was opposing my preferred stack (had 6 years of experience) and I didn't want to build my MVP on that. So I went with a new one, with relatively low experience, and without surprise it took months. I would have done it in weeks with the one I was comfortable with. Needless to mention it did not generate any significant revenue.
As my network eventually changed from devs to founders and investors, I understood how wrong I was and how important it is to launch fast. Launched another product a couple months ago, used a no-code builder, and it started generating revenue from week 1.
Failures are hard taskmasters.
It clobbers you on the face, bringing into attention all that you have been ignoring, holding on to, avoiding or resisting.
Over the years, I have come to realize that failures are like those blows you have to take to make yourself stronger.
Being open to failures and embracing the outcomes is a potent formula for professionals to achieve remarkable results in their career.
Failure is Redirection for me.
If I hadn't failed in my previous projects, I wouldn't have found better alternatives to it & made money with them.
Failure's taught me more lessons than anything else. Primarily, it taught me how to keep going even when there's no one around.
- Don't launch MVP's launch MLP's Minimal Lovable Products.
- Iterate frequently and fast! Nothing in a product is ever complete; there is always more to do.
- Don't be scared to make mistakes but learn from them.
- There is no way around the process!
Failure hurts more deeply than I expected. And each time, it still hurts. Trying to avoid the pain or pretend like I was stronger than everyone else, only put me at a deficit in my ability to recover.
What does recovery from failure look like? Kind of like grief, it stays with you. You don’t leave it behind or forget it. Embracing failure as one of the greatest learning opportunities outs you at an incredible advantage. I carry each loss with me but, today, I catch glimpses of those loses as the foundation for the learnings that help me rack up wins.
My biggest takeaway is take the time to embrace, understand, and fully mourn a loss/failure. Then try and position it as a point of strength you carry.
I learnt that failures are a part of life and we don't stop at a part, we cross it and keep walking...
That the line between failure and success is fragile because you can't foresee the long-term effects of a result.
What is considered a success can lead to the enlargement of the ego.
Also, if you surrender to reality, you can't lose if you keep trying and let go of the results of your actions.
You need to come out of your lala land and think from multiple perspectives to grow, even if it requires crashing everything.
Had I done this with Dictozo.com it could have 100K users now. I always cared about making it perfect before telling to people.
For many years I've learned that failure is inevitable, but it's important to learn from failure. Resilience is an important life skill to build. It helps you overcome failure, which is often a necessary step in a person's journey to success.
For many years, I've learned that failure is inevitable, but it's important to learn from failure. Resilience is an important life skill to build. It helps you overcome failure, which is often a necessary step in a person's journey to success.
There are only two things in this life. Success and learning. Learning is the key of the success. Most of time, learning comes from failure. That's why, we have to keep going on our road with our failures. I have learnt this.
