Steve Jobs started a personal story with [1]: "Most people don't get those experiences because they never ask..." And he ends with "you gotta be willing to fai

Steve Jobs started a personal story with [1]: "Most people don't get those experiences because they never ask..." And he ends with "you gotta be willing to fail ... if you are afraid of failing, you won't get very far" Which seems to be a surprisingly common theme among successful people: Mark Suster has a famous mantra: "You don't ask, you don't get"[2] Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, told a story of how he got Steve Balmer advise him once[3] [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkTf0LmDqKI [2] http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/05/15/the-one-word-that-shouldnt-exist-in-an-entrepreneurs-vocabulary/ http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2013/05/15/the-one-word-t... [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqm9NXug6WE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqm9NXug6WE