{"id":177,"date":"2007-07-23T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T20:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2007\/failure-why-its-a-good-thing-in-the-business-of-web-design\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T20:41:31","slug":"failure-why-its-a-good-thing-in-the-business-of-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2007\/failure-why-its-a-good-thing-in-the-business-of-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure: why it&#8217;s a good thing &#8230; in the Business of Web Design."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/head_shot_small.jpg\" alt=\"Stefan Mischook\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to go on too long on how you should not be so concerned about failure &#8230; for fear of sounding like one of those self-help &#8216;gurus&#8217;. Ack! <\/p>\n<p>But it needs to be quickly address anyhow &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are people so fearful of failure? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Wait a second, that&#8217;s a really stupid question! <\/p>\n<p>People hate to fail because we&#8217;ve been conditioned to think it&#8217;s terrible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can&#8217;t fail a test &#8211; your parents will punish you.<\/li>\n<li>You can never fail a class at school &#8211; your whole academic career will be damaged.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t ever get rejected &#8211; because you&#8217;ll never meet someone new!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The problem with this FALSE belief is that it does not reflect reality and the patterns of the most accomplished people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; To get anywhere, you have to try and fail. And then try again &#8230; and fail. And then try again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY FAILURE IS A GOOD THING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you fail at something, you can be sure that you are moving towards developing a new skill. If you&#8217;ve never failed, it is probably because you never challenged yourself &#8211; that&#8217;s a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCLUSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you travel on the road to developing your web design business, you will undoubtedly face a few failures along the way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Don&#8217;t get too down on yourself when you do hit the expected road-blocks! Just recognize where you messed up and try not to do it again, and move on.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.studioweb.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to go on too long on how you should not be so concerned about failure &#8230; for fear of sounding like one of those self-help &#8216;gurus&#8217;. Ack! But it needs to be quickly address anyhow &#8230; Why are people so fearful of failure? &#8230; Wait a second, that&#8217;s a really stupid question! &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}