There are two reasons why learning from failure is overrated. Firstly, learning from success is far more efficient than learning from failure. In fact, research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business strongly supports that you learn more from success than failure. Secondly, as I wrote a couple days ago, most people fail […]
The prevailing mindset in society is that putting in time entitles you to something. The thought pattern is that if you do something longer than someone else, then you have paid more dues and therefore are qualified to receive more benefits. The problem with this thinking is that putting in time and paying dues are […]
It’s classic advice to tell someone to keep their options open. Most of the time, this is bad advice. There is only one reason why you need to keep your options open, and that’s when you don’t know what you want. Moreover, when you don’t know what you want it doesn’t matter what option you […]