The fear of failure guides everything in our life, but failure is simply tapping into a different idea and a bigger idea. Giving up is the only real failure in life. Thomas Edison learned a thousand different ways the light bulb does not work, which allowed him to find a way that it does work. Look at ideas as experiments, not as successes or failures. Every idea is an experiment with outcomes A or B, and everything we do is an outcome of those two things.
Everyone knows that following your passion is the key to success, right? Today's guest Naveen Jain offers an emphatic "no!" He believes the key to success in life is identifying an obsession and chasing it with everything you have, regardless of what it may cost.
Naveen is an entrepreneur driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius, and InfoSpace. He has been awarded many honors for his entrepreneurial successes and leadership skills, including “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year”, “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for pioneers in technology, “Most creative person” by Fast Company, and “Humanitarian Innovation Award” at the United Nations among others.
In this episode, we discuss what he has learned through his decades of entrepreneurship and how we can each identify problems worth spending our lives on.
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