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Comment on The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received by needy mom financial help

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Comment on Rethink Your Assumptions by alex

alex — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:39:27 +0000

I often think the hardest part is figuring out what the actual lesson is for any given failure and how that will affect your decisions when put in a similar situation in the future. sometimes it is obvious and clearly helpful, other times it’s just a difficult situation and it’s not at all clear how to change your actions so that it does not happen again the next time. btw, have you been following eric ries’s blog about lean startups at http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/ ? great stuff.

Comment on Rethink Your Assumptions by faith like

faith like — Sun, 03 May 2009 18:54:27 +0000

Like Magic, I like this post and agree on the plausability of plural distinct types of ordeals persay.

Namaste

Comment on Rethink Your Assumptions by Arthur

Arthur — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:14:26 +0000

Nice post. Let me question some assumptions. First, Rethinking assumptions is always a plus. Second, you appear to treat all assumptions as being equivalent. In some settings isn’t it plausible that some assumptions are more important, more critical than others? Also some assumptions are not always explicit and are hard to discern. Relatedly, individuals may not always recognize the assumptions they are making. While not without its own problems, having others involved in these assumption probing discussions can be helpful.

Comment on Rethink Your Assumptions by Sam O'Daniel

Sam O'Daniel — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:59:20 +0000

I think this post relates to the last paragraph in your “Best Advice” column very well. It will challenge you to make sure that you’re doing what you *really* want to do.

A good exercise. Thanks.

Comment on The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received by Seth Blank

Seth Blank — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:45:28 +0000

Hamish,

Because I’d personally try and argue with that one on the spot because it feels silly to me. “Pass up an exciting investment opportunity for surgery you don’t even need? Really?!”

And you know what? Even if I won that discussion, I’d still lose in the long term because the investor would now be going into the deal for the wrong reasons. If things become rough, the investor is likely to feel that his arm was twisted, or that he got cheated out of money needed for something else. And if things are rough and you need more funding and go back to this investor? There’s a quick no waiting for you.

But if you had instead shown the investor the reasons to invest, while never belittling his other uses for the money, the above situations cannot occur. And when the investor knows why he is investing and is emotionally committed to that investment, you have your support in rough times and your follow on funding in dire times.

Comment on The Best Advice I’ve Ever Received by Hamish Hughes

Hamish Hughes — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:16:05 +0000

Very interesting, and a lot of truth there. This relates well to George Lakoff’s theory about how you cannot convince someone of something if being convinced would violate their mindset and assumptions.

But tell me, why elective surgery of all things to mention?