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Looking for failure
How quickly can you fail? How badly can you fail? Why would that be something you want to keep track of? Perhaps because you may not understand the better purpose of failure. One man did know about how to use failure to his benefit. Johnny Carson has, by far, been the most successful late night talk show ever. What you may not know is how he started every day. He would sit with some coffee, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, a pad of paper and a pen. He would read each of the papers and as he read, he would look to write a joke. He would write over 50 jokes per morning. HOWEVER, the purpose of each joke was so that it would get thrown in the trashcan. Every morning he would write over 50 jokes just so that he could throw them into the trashcan. If something went wrong and the joke was so good that he couldn’t throw it away, it made it to that night’s monologue. And of course, during the monologue, if a joke bombed, again, he made light of it so that failure also became success. How successful? You may not ... more
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