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Rethink Failure
It’s easy to say “Try new things!” or “Take risks!” But the reality is that we’d all like to be successful all the time. Every setback stings.
In 2019, I decided it was time to set some audacious goals for myself:
- Coauthor a book with a famous writer, dramatically raising my profile
- Successfully option the rights to my favorite movie and turn it into a musical as part of the BMI Workshop
- Launch a column for one of the world’s most prominent media outlets
- Speak at a particular high-profile industry conference
- Land on the Thinkers50 list of the top business thinkers in the world
This wasn’t wishful thinking or cutting out collages to put on a vision board. All of them were stretch goals, but they were plausible if I made the ...
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