The Architecture of Success is Failure
The biggest lesson I had to learn was how to fail faster… That’s why when I left Xerox at five o’clock, I would go up the street to the nonprofit charity, helping homeless kids, and I would dial for donations at night. I had a goal every night of getting rejected thirty times. The more I increased my failure rate, the more success I had at Xerox.-Robert Kiyosaki in The Education of Millionaires by Michael Ellsberg
Thirty rejections a day! Thirty!
I do a large amount of reading, and cannot remember the last time I read something so completely stunning.
Not the fact that he failed 30 times, but that he went out with a goal of coming home with at least 30 failures.
I suppose the biggest successes are built, often on a mountain of failure. Before Microsoft, Bill Gates started a data company that went nowhere. Before Twitter Evan Williams, started a podcasting platform that was crushed by iTunes.
The concept of failing faster goes hand-in-hand with lean startup theory: fail fast, fail cheap, move on to the next idea.
A Windows Desktop Mac Users Envy
Yeah, I said it. A Windows desktop Mac users can envy.
If you own a Mac you should probably stop reading.
You see that image above?
That is what my desktop looks like right now. It’s efficient, beautiful and has an awesome clock. The best part is that setting it up takes less than an hour. That includes cleaning all the crap off your desktop.
However, it wasn’t always that way. It was once cluttered with a mess of folders and papers in complete disarray.