I told each YC batch that if they came and asked me if they were failing, I'd answer them candidly. Few ever did.
Confidence and denial are remarkably similar in their effect on your behavior, but disastrously different in their effect on your results.
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@moxie remarked that he almost died because "the act of giving up feels so similar to the sensation of success" https://moxie.org/stories/brink-of-death/ … -
Thank you for sharing this amazing story. I could feel myself shiver as I read it, I'm glad
@moxie and his mate made it out OK.
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cockroaches don't care which is which.. they just live on.
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How to distinguish denial from persistence/grit?
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Pivoting or a performing business model for proof?
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They'te also similiar in outward appearance. Fine line btw denying and DISREGARDING facts.
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Not mutually exclusive though. Certainty about truth and declaring something untrue could display persistence (known trait for success)
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