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Originally Posted by Brujah
It's easy to predict failure, because there are more failures than successes. It doesn't make any of you psychic or great businessmen, it's just playing the odds. You'll end up right most of the time. You have to ignore naysayers and haters and take the risks required to pursue your ideas.
There's this story about Edison. "He saw every failure as a success. The story goes that he failed 10,000 times in his storage battery experiments. But Edison said, "Why, I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.""
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The key difference is self awareness. Edison knew what he knew. He also knew what he didn't know. He knew what his abilities were. He knew what was within his abilities. He knew he had to learn a lot to solve a problem or achieve his goal. He knew it would be a long, painful process and one that might not be concluded in his lifetime.
Edison didn't start his journey of discovery with a deep rooted sense of misplaced arrogance and misguided bravado believing he knew it all and had nothing left to learn... because that's not discovery at all. Nor was he surrounded with a bunch of dick sucking jackasses telling him at every failure, that it looked good, that it was a great idea, that he was a genius... or that heralded every failure as a success.
