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If you could meet one person...

11 points by ciscoriordan 18y ago

vp 18y ago
I would like to meet the person who have a failed startup on his account and trying the next time... many people don't even have the courage to start the first time. "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."
- pedalpete 18y ago
  As one who has failed before, I appreciate your comment. I've been involved in a few successes and a few failures, and your quote is poignant because of the number of people involved in these failures who took nothing away from it except to blame others, and that's not learning.
- swombat 18y ago
  It's me. On my second start-up now, and certainly learned a lot from the first one. Don't think you'd get that much from meeting me though - why not just start your own start-up, fail, then start again? Then you can have conversations with your ideal person-to-meet all day long for free!
  - vp 18y ago
    great advice. will try to fail as early as possible, to start again..
theashworld 18y ago
meet yourself. Most people don't know themselves deep enough to figure out their own plusses and minuses and act on them. Every person has the potential to achieve success, but it begins from self realization.
- kirubakaran 18y ago
  The problem is, the guy I met yesterday is not the same guy today.
  - swombat 18y ago
    Are you sure about that?
    - kirubakaran 18y ago
      I think so.
      - light3 18y ago
        What if time was multidimensional?
        kirubakaran 18y ago
        Whoever is simulating us (and this universe) probably will deploy a patch that will make sure that that won't change things one way or the other.
puzzle-out 18y ago
"Years ago, I went to the AOL partner's conference. I'm no runner (unless someone is chasing me) yet I signed up for the early morning run because I knew Steve Case, CEO of AOL, would be running. I ran with him for twenty minutes, almost killed myself". Seth Godin the Movie has light comedy potential. A shaven headed Jim Carey for the lead?
thinkzig 18y ago
Another good one from Seth. I'd add that one of the best ways to meet the kind of people who want to help you is to be helpful yourself. It's the whole "giver's gain" thing. The more you put yourself out there and try to help folks, the more they'll want to help you too.
hs 18y ago
so who is the one? is s/he yourself?

11 points by ciscoriordan 18y ago

vp 18y ago

I would like to meet the person who have a failed startup on his account and trying the next time... many people don't even have the courage to start the first time. "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."

pedalpete 18y ago
As one who has failed before, I appreciate your comment. I've been involved in a few successes and a few failures, and your quote is poignant because of the number of people involved in these failures who took nothing away from it except to blame others, and that's not learning.
swombat 18y ago
It's me. On my second start-up now, and certainly learned a lot from the first one. Don't think you'd get that much from meeting me though - why not just start your own start-up, fail, then start again? Then you can have conversations with your ideal person-to-meet all day long for free!
- vp 18y ago
  great advice. will try to fail as early as possible, to start again..

theashworld 18y ago

meet yourself. Most people don't know themselves deep enough to figure out their own plusses and minuses and act on them. Every person has the potential to achieve success, but it begins from self realization.

kirubakaran 18y ago
The problem is, the guy I met yesterday is not the same guy today.
- swombat 18y ago
  Are you sure about that?
  - kirubakaran 18y ago
    I think so.
    - light3 18y ago
      What if time was multidimensional?
      - kirubakaran 18y ago
        Whoever is simulating us (and this universe) probably will deploy a patch that will make sure that that won't change things one way or the other.

puzzle-out 18y ago

"Years ago, I went to the AOL partner's conference. I'm no runner (unless someone is chasing me) yet I signed up for the early morning run because I knew Steve Case, CEO of AOL, would be running. I ran with him for twenty minutes, almost killed myself". Seth Godin the Movie has light comedy potential. A shaven headed Jim Carey for the lead?

thinkzig 18y ago

Another good one from Seth. I'd add that one of the best ways to meet the kind of people who want to help you is to be helpful yourself. It's the whole "giver's gain" thing. The more you put yourself out there and try to help folks, the more they'll want to help you too.

hs 18y ago

so who is the one? is s/he yourself?