Highly productive people fail a lot. Now it's not that you should set out to fail. It just happens. You've heard the proverbial Thomas Edison thousand failed ways to make a light bulb before one works. He's really not that rare when it comes to inventors and great business leaders. They try things they fail.
Facebook was not the first website Mark Zuckerberg started. Steve Jobs was actually kicked out of Apple because of so many failures earlier in his career. If you look at any great inventor, business Titan, for that matter politician, they have massive, massive strings of failures attached. Many of them have bankruptcies. I've never had a bankruptcy, but it's primarily because I didn't have any assets worth protecting. I've had failed TV shows failed websites, my first hundred online courses So we're pretty much failures and yet I gone on to many successes.
This does differ from profession to profession. If you want to be a corporate lawyer, if that's your goal, or a respected surgeon, then that career path is usually a little more settled, have you do well in school you are on this track. You go here you have this internship, this fellowship. And you might not see as much failure but for most people, especially wildly ambitious people, outside of a couple of regimented professions, you're going to have failure. And the whole challenge is figuring out how to fail faster, how to learn from your failures, how to take this failure here and turn it into a success over there. One trait I have noticed among wildly unproductive people This, they don't fail much.
They don't fail much, because they don't try much. There's the old adage, a cliche, nothing ventured, nothing gained. But cliches are often forged in reality, and that's the case here. If you don't try enough things, if you don't venture out there, you're not going to make the big gains. So my advice to you if you want to be more productive, you're going to have to figure out a way of failing faster, ideally these days faster and less expensive Lee more quickly so you can gather up knowledge you learned to use this as a stepping stone to your next success. If you're not failing often enough.
You're not trying hard enough.