A speaker draws on Susan Jeffers and Ryan Holiday to argue for deliberately chasing failure as a growth strategy. Treating new challenges like software releases, you surface fears early, fix them fast, and iterate. The key: step out of your comfort zone, confront what scares you, and repeat.
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Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. And I remember reading through that book. And that helps me to overcome some fear. And then reading Ryan's book about Chasing Failure, I'm like, yeah, I need to do that more. Right? Just keep, keep chasing failure. And don't be afraid of it. Just do it. And so now my biggest thing is, if I'm, if I'm about to do something new, I want to do it and fail as soon as possible and get a result and then improve that result. And I relate it well to that because I'm a software developer. And so as a software developer in IT, we know, hey, you write some code, the first code is gonna have issues, you want to get to those bugs as soon as possible, right? So it's like you write it, then you get an issue, you fix it and make it better, right? And you keep releasing it. That's why like all your software programs are constantly having updates and things to it, because we realize, okay, you're gonna write some code, then you can always make it better. You can always make it better. You can always make it better, right? And so I learned that principle of just chasing failure. So I'm looking for opportunities. Hey, how can I go outside of my comfort zone? Whether it's with speaking, whether it's with, you know, writing a book, or whatever it is, stretch myself a little bit, feel that fear, but stretch myself and do it anyway, reward myself for doing like, yes, did it. You know, I faced another fear. And you have to keep doing that. Over and over and over.
Wow. That is— and that's something I've definitely lived here in Silicon Valley, you know, with the agile methodology. Usually the very first version of the software isn't that good, but in time, you know, it gets better and better and better. We really
