Eliminating the Fear of Failing

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Last week, I stumbled across Gary Vaynerchuk and John C. Maxwell both talking about failure within a few hours of one another. And both stressed the importance of failure and learning from it to move yourself, your business, your career all forward.

I mentioned Thomas Edison's famous thousands of failures leading towards discovery yesterday, but in today's world, people tend to live in fear of failing, as if a single failure will destroy their career. Any business seeking sustained success has to modify the culture so that it eliminates that fear of failing and allows for innovation to organically grow. Otherwise, you entrench the culture of "playing it safe" and stifle true development and growth.