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Re:Pinterest founder kept going to avoid embarassment of fai... by rokhayakebe on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @12:47AM (#3701848)
I stopped telling people alltogether. This way only "I" know of my many failures.
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Re:Pinterest founder kept going to avoid embarassment of fai... by webwright on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:23AM (#3702064)
Telling people is a great psychological hack. Once you declare what you're doing, failing is a lot harder. If you keep it under your hat, quitting is easy.
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