Failure

Failure. How do you deal with it? How to learn from it? How do you know when you should give up vs keep pushing?

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The Show Notes!

01:34

• Scott and Wes shoot the shit
• Wes is back from the DotJS conference
• Wes does a terrible (and hopefully not offensive) French Accent

03:50

• What's the deal with the #FailFast culture
• We talk about Fear of Failure and how it can stop you from starting anything at all
• High Stakes vs Low Stakes Failure

09:20

• Be aware of how fear of failure manifests itself in your work
• Just do it, put in the work
• Pen to Paper

12:20

• How to deal with mid-project failure
• Getting sick of a project part way through
• Finishing Things is such an underrated skill
• Small wins is key for confidence
• Take the emotion out of the decisions

18:00

• MVP - Minimum Viable Product

19:30

• Do you plan for failure?
• Wes' Life is Course Correction
• Wes is Unapologetically Confident
• Scott is Ignorantly Confident

23:00

• Another one of Scott's amazing segueways into our Sponsor

26:20

• Wes' Facebook Ads Failures
• The cost of admission
• Own your role in something failing

33:33

• Eating burnt rice is a huge character trait
• Pivoting

41:20

• Our own personal failures detailed
• Scott's Soundcloud
• Scott's Bandcamp

Sick Picks

• Scott: Cypress.io
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