Michael Evans argues that failing hard teaches you faster than playing it safe. He went from making $20k-$50k a year with direct publishing to better outcomes by fully committing to projects, learning from the wreckage, and moving on.
'fail quickly'
Approximately $20,000–$50,000 a year (mentioned as 20, 30, 40, 50,000 a year examples).
So I've tried and failed a lot. But I can say faithfully that I didn't go into something without putting 100% of effort into it. Those failures were opportunities to. To learn in that I would not have gotten the necessary knowledge out of had I not put a whole effort into it. And I wrote a paper back when I was in my graduate school, and it was about how Spotify's motto they have written on the side of their the conference room is fail quickly. And I love it because it says I'm gonna. I'm put as much effort into this to get the answers I need to move on. If it doesn't work that way, you're not dwelling on the same old. Because if I were dwelling on the same old thing as I had been for the last four or five years in publishing, I would still be where I was at in publishing. I was making moves, going direct, but I was still only making 20, 30, 40, 50,000 a year direct. It was not the kind of money where I was looking at now. And I had not seen the machine work the way it does now when things go right. So fail quickly. That's my message today.
