About a month and a half ago, I wrote about my attempts to seek out failure and how, ironically, I had so far failed to find failure. I needn’t have worried, because failure found me: I was let go from my job at The Motley Fool. To be blunt, this sucks. It sucks a lot. I loved working at The Motley Fool and I really thought it would be the…
As you may have noticed, I’ve been on a bit of entrepreneurial kick lately. It started around nine months ago, when I talked about the lessons that I learned from my biggest investing mistake. It was there that I wrote about the saying that had really resonated with me and which was starting to change how I looked at things: “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”…
Recently at work, a question was broadcast over Slack (for those unfamiliar with Slack, think of a messaging tool that is a cross between email and instant messaging) asking if anybody had any interesting stories about stocks that they had sold that they later regretted. The story was to be used in an upcoming podcast (if you want to hear the dulcet tones of my voice recounting the story, check…