Embracing Failure and Unconventional Wisdom

Challenging conventional beliefs, Vinod Khosla encourages embracing failure as a pathway to success. His insights urge individuals to defy norms, challenge authority, and explore beyond boundaries. Through thought-provoking scenarios and unconventional advice, Khosla advocates for risk-taking, irreverence, and perseverance in the face of failure, emphasizing the insignificance of past mistakes. The narrative promotes a mindset shift towards innovative thinking and acting boldly to create one's unique path to success.

• Failure
• Unconventional wisdom
• Risk-taking
• Innovation
• Success

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1. failing to succeed vinod khosla vk@khoslaventures.com 1

2. conventional wisdom score A s color inside the lines behave properly show respect be thoughtful, don t take risks or else you might fail!! 2

3. the lesson your parents dont want you to hear 3

4. fail well, with effort and often nobody remembers your failures, & mostly they don t matter 4

5. be irreverent, disrespect authority disrespect experts challenge your teachers get evicted, you ll survive 5

6. dont worry about your score learn to explore 6

7. dont be proper or show good behavior! be irreverent, throw some food, throw an eraser 7

8. drop out of school? my daughter did! 8

9. be on the edge do the unexpected (don t be a doctor) 9

10. how many lines to connect all the dots? 10 Source: Amory Lovins, RMI

11. standard nine dots solution 11 Source: Amory Lovins, RMI

12. thinking outside the box solution 12 Source: Amory Lovins, RMI

13. better: use just three lines But how about just one line? 13 Source: Amory Lovins, RMI

14. geographers solution 14 Source: Amory Lovins, RMI

15. mechanical engineers solution 15 Source: Amory Lovins, RMI

16. wide line solution 16 Source: Amory Lovins, RMI

17. dont just color outside the lines fold the paper up, cut holes in it and burn it! 17

18. is failure so bad? 18

19. the freedom to fail gives us the freedom to succeed 19

20. I dont care about the failures and what people think I only care about trying what s worth trying and just do it 20

21. I dont mind failing, but if we succeed, it better be worth succeeding 21

22. ever tried. ever failed. no matter. try again. fail again. fail better." Samuel Beckett 22

23. it is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca 23

24. courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacker 24

25. try and fail, but don't fail to try. Stephen Kaggwa 25

26. only those who dare fail greatly can achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy 26

27. you will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. Maya Angelou 27

28. you will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated. Maya Angelou 28

29. I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.. Michael Jordan 29

30. failures are in good company teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. first flight for 4 years, methodically built on successive failures to achieve the first flight 30

31. when your parents tell you not to take that risk cynics never do the impossible, achieve the improbable, take on the inadvisable. Hope is only path to extraordinary success Anonymous tweet 31

32. improbable is not unimportant 32

33. mindset 33

34. dream the dreams & be foolish enough to try and make them come true 34

35. you don't do extraordinary things by attempting ordinary things, reasonable things be unreasonable! 35

36. shoot for the moon! 36

37. question everything especially your teachers 37

38. if youre not failing, try harder & more! you re not taking enough risk, you are not on the edge 38

39. with persistence! like my stanford MBA admittance 39

40. Push yourself : good isn t good enough .great is barely acceptable 40

41. with fun, attitude, bravado, irreverence. 41

42. with guts and premature confidence and paranoia 42

43. admit when youve failed just get up and get going again 43

44. jump without a parachute (& annoy your parents) create necessity 44 Source: On being Certain Robert Burton

45. get into trouble with no easy way out 45

46. be obstinate about your vision, not your tactics 46

47. know when to stick to it, and when to bail 47

48. make each failure as small as possible 48

49. and when you fail ask lots of questions 49

50. beware : failed strategies vs. failed tactics 50

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