Comments on: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Maybe You Should Give Up – With Ted Rheingold http://mixergy.com/maybe-give-up/ Events and Interviews for Web Visionaries. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:13:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AndrewWarner http://mixergy.com/maybe-give-up/comment-page-1/#comment-4816 AndrewWarner Tue, 26 May 2009 02:57:17 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1274#comment-4816 Thanks Tom. Sorry about the late response. I'm just getting through my<br>emails today.<br><br>After doing over 150 interviews, I'm starting to see that this is a much<br>more common story than the "stick with it till the world knows I'm right"<br>approach. Thanks Tom. Sorry about the late response. I'm just getting through my
emails today.

After doing over 150 interviews, I'm starting to see that this is a much
more common story than the “stick with it till the world knows I'm right”
approach.

]]> By: tom http://mixergy.com/maybe-give-up/comment-page-1/#comment-4363 tom Mon, 18 May 2009 23:56:25 +0000 http://mixergy.com/?p=1274#comment-4363 Another great interview Andrew. As usual, I really like how you bounce between interviewing people about their specific product and more generally what lessons they drew from their experience.<br><br>We tend to focus our attention on those people who, against all the odds and in the face of advice from the crowd, go it alone and achieve great success. But this is the confirmation bias at work. We conveniently ignore the far far more common story of the people who pursue such a course and bankrupt themselves, destroy a marriage, miss their kids growing up and more all for an idea that never did and never will have traction.<br><br>This whole idea of the miner who gave up just inches from the richest vein in history and all those stories fail to account for all the times the "keep going no matter what" strategy doesn't pan out. <br><br>When I was a kid I came across Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, a song written by Pete Seeger in 1963 and when people start telling me that I'm just not getting it, I always try to ask myself if whether they're just not understanding or whether I'm not getting it and I'm Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4</a> Another great interview Andrew. As usual, I really like how you bounce between interviewing people about their specific product and more generally what lessons they drew from their experience.

We tend to focus our attention on those people who, against all the odds and in the face of advice from the crowd, go it alone and achieve great success. But this is the confirmation bias at work. We conveniently ignore the far far more common story of the people who pursue such a course and bankrupt themselves, destroy a marriage, miss their kids growing up and more all for an idea that never did and never will have traction.

This whole idea of the miner who gave up just inches from the richest vein in history and all those stories fail to account for all the times the “keep going no matter what” strategy doesn't pan out.

When I was a kid I came across Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, a song written by Pete Seeger in 1963 and when people start telling me that I'm just not getting it, I always try to ask myself if whether they're just not understanding or whether I'm not getting it and I'm Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4

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