One of the biggest secrets out there in terms of my social computing background, experience, and blogging, is that I’ve been a massive failure.
From my fairly accurate calculations the count now stands that about 1 out of 100 projects that I’ve started have actually amounted to anything worth admitting in a conversation with people I admire. Meaning that the vast majority are pretty embarassing and super lame.
But that’s my secret sauce. That’s the key to success in this digital economy: You just have to try, and thankfully the relative “cost” is pretty much nominal, at best. A few bumps perhaps, a bruised ego for sure, and a couple dollars is all that it’ll cost.
As technoevangelists we need to keep trying and not giving up. It’s a marathon race, not a sprint, and the build is always slower than we’d like but that’s a good thing. Just make sure you learn from the mistakes, and you’ll be good to go.
My secret sauce is my many technological disasters, experiments, and wasted code…. what’s yours?
That is most successful leaders secret sauce..it is for me too!!
We will always learn more from our failures than our success, that is so true. Thanks for the encouragement.
The beauty of the digital economy is that it didn't cost you all that much (outside of your time & relative to other business models) in resources to get those 99 failures out of the way!
So right! the blog i have now is my second one. my first one was really a failure. i'm not even proud of it but yes i learned from my mistakes. i think my new one is better. *i hope*
LOL!
Hey, only 95 to go for me then!
I've got an idea. You want to collaborate?
Pride: The root of all my issues.
seriuously.
Great post!
rock it!
Patience: like you said… it's a marathon.
What’s up with that all that failure glorification over the last few years. It’s seems like everyone advises people to start something then expect and rejoice over the failure. What about advising people:
Don’t fail! If you do, it’s not the end of the world just don’t give up and DO NOT FAIL this time.