Why You Should Learn To Love Failing Just Like Silicon Valley Does
The way you view something makes a big difference.
If you view something as a positive, you will feel and act one way.
If you view the same thing as a negative, you will feel act a completely different way.
Check out this article called “Why Silicon Valley Loves Failures” by Eric Markowitz and learn how to view failure like the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley do…
“In the mid-’90s, Kamran Elahian, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, famously engraved his Ferrari F355’s license plate with Momenta, the name of a company he founded in 1989. Plenty of entrepreneurs ordered vanity plates for their company’s namesake, but Elahian was different: Momenta had gone bankrupt in 1992.”
“‘It’s to remind me not to be too proud,’ Elahian told the San Francisco Chronicle back in 1998, when asked why he chose Momenta for his license plate. ‘Unlike other entrepreneurs who put the names of successful companies on license plates, I decided to put my biggest failure. That way, I have to be reminded of it every time I get in the car.'”
“Elahian may have been a man before his time.”
“Failure, it seems, is the buzzword of the moment in Silicon Valley…”
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