Consulting is a great Plan B but a terrible Plan A. The healthiest way to enter consulting as a calling is by crashing comically (but not tragically or ignominously) out of a Plan A. Tragic failure makes you poisonous to others' efforts even if you sincerely intend to help.
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Replying to @vgr
Can you give examples of tragic versus comic failure? I'm not sure if my failures are comic or tragic. What if you fail at a farcical place
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Replying to @doriantaylor @andrewthesmart
If you're left with a narcisstic wound and a burning residual desire for redemption instead of "well I took my best swing at it", it's tragic. Most with any talent for consulting at all are self-aware enough to make this judgment.
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One sign is continuously trying to re-enter history on the strength of your track record of *failures* ("I've failed at digital currency for 20y so you should listen to me on crypto now that someone else made it actually work")
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