Failure is Overrated: Hacking Failure for Success
There’s plenty of literature in the entrepreneurship and leadership genres about the glory of failure. Conference speakers talk about times they have failed and how they wouldn’t be where they are today without that failure. Blog posts on why you should fail forward! and fail often! sing the praises of failure for creating a working product or a successful […]
On Self-Failure
I failed myself on Saturday. I failed to meet the standards I laid out for myself in my Project for Individual Excellence (PIE) by not authoring a blog post that day. I could tell myself that I was tired and that I fell asleep earlier than usual. I could tell myself it is okay because […]
Cutting through Self-Help Bullshit and Living Purposefully
There are entire bookstores devoted to selling literature about “finding your purpose,” creating a “purpose-driven life,” “finding your passion,” and other platitudes of the schmaltzy self-help genre. Usually, these boil down to “focus on what you really want to live for and just go after that and everything else will follow!” They place a huge […]
Mike Rowe on Elitism in Employment and Opportunity
I had the pleasure of watching, via Livestream, “The Diploma Dilemma: Exploring the Costs and Value of College Education” hosted at the Newseum in DC the other night. The guests included the former president of American University, an executive from US News and World Reports, Ohio University’s Richard Vedder, and Discovery Channel’s Mike Rowe. The […]