{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fe27898c0-d552-49fb-b712-737279280322","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Try Again, Fail Again\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/e27898c0-d552-49fb-b712-737279280322\"></iframe>","title":"Try Again, Fail Again","description":"\u201cEver tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.\u201d\u200a<br />\r\n<br />\r\n\u2014\u200aSamuel Beckett<br />\r\n\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nA few years ago, I interviewed The Wolf of Wall St, Jordan Belfort.\u00a0 Love him or hate him, there are lessons to be learned by a figure like Belfort, a person who has felt the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWhen he was 23, Belfort went bankrupt running a business selling lobsters.\u00a0 That event was undeniable.\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHowever, Belfort had control of his reaction to the event.\u00a0 He could have either saw it as a sign that he didn\u2019t have any entrepreneurial or sales skills or he could have seen it as a learning lesson to bring into his next business.\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHe saw it as the latter and onward he went.\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nHis goal wasn\u2019t to succeed wildly, it was to fail quickly - he knew the odds were against him and it would take a lot of at-bats before he\u2019d hit a home run.\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nIf you\u2019re stumbling - or flat out failing - it\u2019s up to you to interpret the invent.\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nShould you give up?\u00a0\u00a0<br />\r\n<br />\r\nOr are you ready to dust off and use it as a learning lesson?<br />\r\nThis post is from our new series, Daily Momentum.\u00a0 Each morning, we send a short, inspirational post via email, blog and podcast.\u00a0 You can get it\u00a0directly to your email here.\u00a0 You can\u00a0subscribe on iTunes here\u00a0.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/84060626-235a-42dc-9a40-a1eead6830e0/eAA1TPwy9oTcEamuijU4gpev.png"}