Blindingly Obvious (BO): To Succeed Sooner You Need To Fail Faster

Fail Faster

Fail faster to succeed sooner.


Fail. Fail again. Fail better.

Too often ideas just stay as ideas. Thinking or talking about an idea doesn't make it into a real thing.

Showing people a rough working model gives them permission to give you honest, sometimes brutal, feedback. They don't think you have spent hours labouring so they don't worry that they might hurt your feelings. In most cases people find it vey easy to tell you what is wrong with something.

If you show them a seemingly perfect solution straight off they will just say a cursory, "Yeah, that is good" and what will you have learned?

By giving ourselves permission to not get it right the first time, to fail, and being unafraid to ask for feedback we can start on the path to success.


REWARD excellent failures. IGNORE mediocre successes. PUNISH passivity.

Blindingly Obvious: An adjective describing something that is so plain to see that it is easily overlooked.

Note: Not to be confused with someone who's obviously blind!