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a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all ? in which case, you fail by default.
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
Peter ThielというPaypalの共同創業者で、現在Founders Fundにて、Facebook、Slide.comに投資している投資家が、the best predictor of startup success(ベンチャー企業が成功するかの予測指標)について、以下のように話をしている。 ------------------------------------------------ The lower the CEO salary, the more likely it is to succeed. The CEO’s salary sets a cap for everyone else.
CEOの給与が低ければ、より成功しやすくなる。CEOの給与がほかの人の給与の上限を決めるからだ。
If it is set at a high level, you end up burning a whole lot more money. It aligns his interest with the equity holders.
But [beyond that], it goes to whether the mission of the company is to build something new or just collect paychecks.In practice we have found that if you only ask one question, ask that.
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