Book Titles

Fail Fast, Fail Often
How Losing Can Help You Win

By John Krumboltz, Ryan Babineaux

Year Published: 2013
ISBN-13: 978-0399166259
Categories: Failure, Losing, Winning

51 Quotes Found

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Fail Fast, Fail Often:

You are more likely to come up with transformative ideas when you are doing things out in the world – trying new activities, exploring unfamiliar places, meeting people…

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Fail Fast, Fail Often:

An important aspect of becoming an innovator is learning to act outside the box – to step outside your usual haunts, habits, and thinking patterns to embrace new possibilities.

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Fail Fast, Fail Often:

…a rich and varied background helps one to look at problems from many angles and come up with ideas and strategies that transcend any single perspective.

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When you expose yourself to new places, it helps you break free from your current thinking and envision new ideas.

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Perhaps the most powerful way to initiate transformative ideas is by interacting with people outside your usual social network.

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Fail Fast, Fail Often:

Although we are masters of analysis, we are less skilled when it comes to boldly engaging in the key actions that lead to real change.

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Fail Fast, Fail Often:

If you want to be a doer – then it is essential that you not deplete your confidence and energy by overthinking your opportunities.

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People are better at recognizing risks than they are at identifying opportunities, place a higher premium on potential losses than they do on equivalent gains…

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Fail Fast, Fail Often:

Sometimes the biggest risk is the future that you will end up with if you are unwilling to change.

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Fail Fast, Fail Often:

When you find yourself in a confusing situation with many possible choices to consider, sometimes the best thing to do is to find a key step you can take that will simplify things and move them forward.

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