Founders, Failure is Just One Chapter in Life

Startup Therapy

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss why founders should stop thinking that failure is forever. Sometimes, when we experience hard times in our lives, we feel like this will never get better again – but that’s not true. Your whole life is a book with different chapters and each has its own challenges and you will get over them. Once you finish a bad chapter, just quickly get started on to the next one, because remember, failure is just one chapter in your life.

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What to Listen For

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:38 We keep projecting bad things into the future
  • 02:27 Things can only fail at a finite number of times
  • 04:05 Lay-offs
  • 05:50 This pain won’t last forever
  • 07:54 It’s just one chapter
  • 11:22 You will barely even remember it
  • 13:09 Start the next chapter as fast as possible
  • 16:16 A startup is a chapter but our life is the book
  • 17:40 Don’t get lost in the feeling
  • 20:01 Nobody will remember it
  • 21:32 There’s lot and lot of chapters

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