Chapter Fourteen. Don’t adjust
Here is a key thought. In fact, it’s so important in this guide to failure that I’m going to underline it. So you never, ever forget it. And it’s this: Don’t become a kid again. Do you remember how curious you were as a kid? How experimental? How open to new ideas? How creative? As Freud put it: “What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant curiosity of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” Now he may have been a smart Aleck, but he was right. Childlike behavior can generate a massive number of successful results. (In ...
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