A short motivational talk (YouTube video) arguing that success comes from trying many things rather than predicting a single correct choice. The speaker urges leaders to create a culture that values experimentation and treats early unsuccessful attempts as learning moments rather than final failures; true failure is stopping a project too late after ignoring earlier signals.
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I'm not, and I assure you, you are not smart enough to figure out ahead of time which of the hundred things you're gonna try is the one that's gonna work out. There's just no way one person in a generation like a Steve Jobs like person, can just point and say, that turns out to be the right answer. So unless you're the Steve Jobs of this generation, the right answer is try stuff. Just try stuff. But then you have to create a culture among your people that says, I. I value you trying things. There's nothing wrong with the learning moment. The failure moment is not the moment where we stop a project. It is the moment when we decide to stop a project and realize that we knew six months earlier, a year and a half earlier, that we could have killed it. That's the failure moment. Not the moment six months earlier or 18 months earlier where we say, oh, that was worth trying, didn't work out next. That's a learning moment. That's not a failure moment.