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I want to try something new with the pinned cast in /success: encouraging more long form discussion. Read the question below and answer thoughtfully. Let’s spark some real conversations here! There has been a lot of FUD recently about past failure and what that means for future success. With this in mind—what is the most important failure you’ve experienced in life and how did it shape the person you are today? For me, it was losing everything to drug addiction and the criminal justice system. My career, my health, my youth. But through that struggle, I learned to be a much stronger person—much more capable to take on the challenges of life. I wouldn’t change anything as all of it helped shape the person I am today. What about you?

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there’s so many moments in my life that I can point to and say that this moment shaped me, but I’ll start with this one. I moved to Hollywood with my band in an effort to get a record deal and have some fun. we made some good music but the band imploded before that happened. At this crossroads everyone went their own way. I felt that my story wasn’t over yet, so I decided to stay in ca to see where life took me. I got a job at a computer reseller shortly after this. a few years later I got a job offer in another state and the person who took me back to my interview became my future wife…

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I’m a Gen X’er and have had many important failures. One of my earliest was when I was 12 yrs old. I was running blindly through the forest in the backyard of my friend’s house with the kind of abandon that only a kid can have and I ran face-first into rusty barbed wire. It cut an impressive gash across my cheek and I was literally 1/4” away from losing one of my eyes. It was a formative experience. Ever since, I don’t run into unknown situations without doing some research first. I can still be spontaneous, but it’s made me less reckless and more reflective before making rash decisions.

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After my dad passed away my mom was concerned she couldn’t pay for their mortgage. I was in college at the time and I decided to research the heck out of how to make money online to help her out. Long story short, I joined an mlm, lost a shit ton of money, almost got booted from my apartment, and almost failed a hiking/jogging class I spent countless 48 hour binges with no sleep This taught me how hard it is to actually get something of substance going in business and there’s more to it than just putting yourself out there I’ve made some decent money with side hustles since then but they were all short lived because I was working full time and didn’t have the time to dedicate to them

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I am proud to be a recovering addict. I'll share the beginnings of my story.. Played football in high-school, 'merican. In my JV season 15yo, I dislocated my shoulder 7 times and the first thing they did was throw vicodin at my situation. Unfortunately my shoulder was too far gone and I was forced to sit the rest of the season out with the possibility of never being able to play again. This was at the very same time I shifted my lifestyle and moved to my Moms' home - who has the philosophy "as long as it's under my roof where u can be safe...feel free." I try not to blame anyone but myself, but this lifestyle switch was def the beginning of my long road to eventually bootin' dogfood.. iykyk So with the pain of football injuries, and a "safe zone" to party away the rest of my teens and into my mid-twenties...ya boy experimented wif everything under the Sun. Litterally. This was the beginning of my biggest failure, I knew better than to do drugs, I chose to not listen to instinct.

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In fact, I can't boast of any great mega story to get you all to give me a standing ovation! One very important survival happened to me during childbirth. I was born 2.5 months premature. I was nursed in intensive care and I pulled through and now live without any abnormalities, I am a normal person. Later I will share stories from my life, but for my stories to exist, it was those doctors, thanks to them, who saved my life at birth.

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Dude I love this. My life lesson was realizing my not caring attitude was not going to get me anywhere. I skated thru high school, did just enough to graduate. Homework, what was that? I made my teachers mad cause I would pass tests without doing an assignment (granted some cheating took place). Not getting accepted to any of the colleges I wanted to go to was the first jab. However, I ended up in community college and realized I didn't even want to be a computer science major. Took a bunch of entry classes and HR resonated with me, and that was my turning point. I still didn't care about gen ed, but aced every other class I did care about. Ended up with a great starting opportunity after 8 months of applying for jobs and not getting it. 10 years later, I'm glad I made the change.

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late to this thread @maretus Lots of them to list tbh. So heres one. I had a thriving Historical Restoration business in NYC, jobs lined up for the next 2 years… then 9-11 went down. Watched the second plane hit from the roof of my workshop. After that suffered from severe ptsd and couldn’t hold my business or my sanity together tbh. Had to leave my dreams behind and rebuild upstate. It took about a year to get the voices out of my head calling myself a failure. Because I realized trying and not succeeding is not failure at all, it’s how we get to where we want to be.

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topic of the everyday🤝

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Love these question fam My failure is a collective failure from my parents passed down to me!!! My parents opened many restaurant locations in my town. And be the same restaurant over and over again same cuisine that screwed us up in the long run because it just became a bunch of customer splitting between stores. Rents was higher. Wages higher insurance you name it. We almost went bankrupt But I locked in to one location and a new cuisine and the rest was history that put my family in a lot less financial stress giving them more freedom and now retired today

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I tried to push an idea or project forward without fully understanding the landscape. maybe it was the tech, the community, or the timing that was off. Despite my passion and effort, it just didn’t click. At first, it felt like I’d wasted my time, but I quickly realized it was actually a powerful lesson in patience and strategy. It taught me the importance of doing more groundwork, listening more carefully to feedback, and not rushing into something just because I’m excited about it. That failure has made me more thoughtful and deliberate in how I approach things today.

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Dropping out of uni but later down the line became a blessing cause it led my down an alternative life / crypto lifestyle

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I've lost $22,000 in the past for failing to invest in coins. The reason was that I invested without preparing properly. So I studied hard, tried again and made $30,000. Others told me to give up, but I tried until the end. This is one of my success stories.☀️

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You're now stable man 🥰😍

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I went to study abroad after failing to enter university I learned a lot of life lessons from that, and I learned a lot of life lessons from that I tried to learn lessons from every aspect of my life

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14 years ago i founded Fab, which was one of the fastest growing companies ever. We provided a marketplace for independent product designers to sell directly to consumers. Our team curated. In year 1 we went from $0 to $115M in sales, 12 million users. The company's valuation went from $12M to $40M to $500M to $900M in that time. we then got CRUSHED by Amazon. Early on it took 45 days from time we feature a designer on Fab before it appeared on Amazon. By year 2.5 Amazon had every Fab product on Amazon in 48h w fast free shipping & returns We didn't make it. While some early investors made huge gains on the way up, later investors lost all their money It was the most humbling experience of my lifetime! -- more than most people will ever ever face What has helped me keep going after it is: 1. my team has never wavered. we build great products together 2. investors supported my next projects 3. i love building and am hungry and motivated to win i also now help teach HBS & Oxford classes on the experience

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I was an actor for 10 years, and I realized I had failed, and I quit. But with the experience of being an actor, Even when I step up or speak in public, the tremor is smaller than others. I don't think there's anything in the world that doesn't help. Oh, of course, it hurts to give up my long dream.

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I used to only be comfortable speaking my native language, and English felt discouraging. I would stay quiet, even when someone hurt me, because reporting it meant speaking English. Instead, I focused on my academics. Now, I’m much better at English and still learning

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