Failure
topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Knowledge Project 
BigDeal 
Capital Allocators 
How I Built This 
20VC
7 statements about Failure, every show
Greca: 'Lifting heavy' means reaching failure at target reps with proper form
“If in a program you're recommended, let's say, 12 reps or eight reps, heavy means going up until that eight or 12 rep, and you're not able to go any further than that. Maybe you have one or two more reps in the tank, but you're basically AKA going to failure. …”
Grant: Celebrating failure is one of Silicon Valley's worst exports
“I think one of the worst exports of Silicon Valley to the rest of the world is the idea that we should celebrate failure.”
Lonsdale calls the Silicon Valley culture of celebrating failure 'really disgusting'
“I think the celebration of failure to me is really disgusting. It's okay to fail. If you try really, really hard, you give it your all. It's not okay to feel because you got distracted and you decided not to do it anymore.”
Berger: Romanticizing failure as positive is unrealistic and ignores human nature
“I think there's a little bit of a false thing out there now around failure that, that we should be happy about failure and we should just Embrace it like it's the greatest thing that ever happened to us. You know, I, I'm sorry, that does not strike me as reali…”
Rabois: Success is learned from winning teams, not analyzing failure
“I think you can learn from failure what not to do again, and that's probably worth learning, like repeating the same mistakes makes no sense, but you can't learn how to be successful just by avoiding mistakes. The way you learn how to be successful is just You…”
Sam Altman: People systematically overrate reputational damage and embarrassment from failure
“I think the wrong kind of risk to take is where people don't actually do things or don't commit to something because they don't want to fail, and they overrate the risk of failure and the reputation damage or embarrassment or whatever.”