Guts is something we all got but its a case whether we can take the plunge and go for what you want. Humor i think can be a good deflection tool though if you fail. But its better to fail then to succeed said the man who created the Dyson vacuum cleaner.

Personally i think it helps if your totally off balance and just go for things with out putting you heart and soul into it at first, it really lessens the damage, but what do i know?

Guts to try and accept failure, sense of humour to laugh at yourself.

I really like your blog.

I first starting reading it at the start of the year after it got a mention in a Sunday Times article about the world’s most influential blogs.

I don’t read it religiously but I do remember some stand-out posts.

Of all the posts I remember, the one about Winston Churchill’s wife, the easel and the black squiggle is the most vivid.

The squiggle was black wasn’t it? I’m sure it was black when you told this same story a few months ago.

It’s a great anecdote and one I’ve found works very well in job interviews.

In fact, it’s such a strong metaphor that it doesn’t need repeating.

After reading the first line I thought of my grandad and his jokes - he has some fantastically funny jokes but he tells the same ones all the time.

Now, when he starts telling a joke I stop listening.

I wasn’t really listening the other day when he announced a punchline and I realised he’d actually just told a joke I hadn’t heard before.

I asked him to tell the joke again.

He told it and it was just as funny as all the other ones.

He was lucky his audience was someone who loved him - a long suffering acquaintence wouldn’t have given him a second chance.

Once you realise that failure is part of the human condition and makes you stronger, start becomes easier.

Fail quickly and often.

It’s the slow painful failures than hurt the most.