17 June 2008 · fairness, marketing, self-esteem, trying

Originally published at https://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2008/06/seth-excels-himself.html

Mostly this is a technical blog, but I feed a bit of marketing to the geeks now and then. I keep an eye on Seth Godin's blog, and this post caught my eye today. It ends with

The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Amen to that. The person who never failed at anything never tried anything worthwhile.

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