J. K. Rowling spins a different kind of magic
Posted: June 11, 2008 Filed under: building ventures | Tags: Anjali, big ideas, failure, imagination, inspiration, JK Rowling, video 2 Comments »“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began directing all my energy into the only work that mattered to me. Had I already succeeded in anything else, I would have never found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged. I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I was still alive, I had a daughter who I adored, I had an old typewriter, and a big idea, and so, rock bottom became the foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
– J. K. Rowling choses to talk about the benefits of failure and the power of imagination in her commencement speech at Harvard. Read the rest of this entry »
Entrepreneurial Judgment
Posted: April 10, 2008 Filed under: building ventures | Tags: inspiration, quotes, startup, technology, tinker 2 Comments »Quote of the day on Entrepreneurial Judgment by Marc (pmarca),
You’d better not have a lot of doubts about what you are doing because everyone else will, and if you do too, you’ll probably give up.
Of course, an entrepreneur’s doubt avoidance is only a plus right up to the point where it becomes pigheaded stubbornness that interferes with her ability to see reality, particularly when a strategy is not working. Read the rest of this entry »
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