Game of Thrones is more than just a show. It’s a subculture and a phenomenon that is on everybody’s lips these days. Even the people who take great pride in never having watched an episode are still talking about it 🙂 And while us, the fans, are waiting to see what happens in the last two episodes, we can take a look back and think of the lessons GoT has taught us so far.
Fear of failure is what holds most people back from trying new things. Ironically, fear is also a guaranteed way to fail – refraining from even trying. Because when you give it a go and try something new, two outcomes become possible. You either achieve the success you were looking for, or you fail and learn something from it, increasing your chances to succeed next time. So, let’s discuss some possible lessons that you can learn from failure, and how the CEOs of some of the most powerful companies relate to it.
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Eddington’s Arrow of Time – describing the one-way direction (or asymmetry) of time – says that things in the real world can never be fully reversed. Unlike in the microscopic world, where things tend to behave a little differently, our world is governed by an obvious flow of time.
A drop of ink can instantly spoil an entire glass of water. Reversing the process would take far more energy and resources than it took to cause it, not to mention more time. The obvious solution
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There are many ways to say certain things. The importance of failure as a key ingredient of success has been evoked by dozens, if not hundreds of figures throughout our history.
Among the influential minds who embraces this notion is Frank Wilczek, an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His line of work is complicated, to say the least. But working on complex problems means you get away with failure more often than anywhere else. Which is why the following applies regardless of one’s profession
