Naveen Jain
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And that's literally what he wrote in the college essay, that my intellectual curiosity did not let me focus on just one thing because I wanted to understand everything before I decide what is it that I want to do with my life.
And that's literally what he wrote in the college essay, that my intellectual curiosity did not let me focus on just one thing because I wanted to understand everything before I decide what is it that I want to do with my life.
I completely agree with you. Imagination is the only boundary. The only thing that limits us to what we can do is our imagination. If we can imagine it, we can achieve it.
I completely agree with you. Imagination is the only boundary. The only thing that limits us to what we can do is our imagination. If we can imagine it, we can achieve it.
I was going to say, you're going to probably ask me, what would I change? You know, interesting thing is, first of all, you never, ever want to change anything about your past. And here's why. If you love just the way you are, if you changed anything in your past, you will become a completely different person. Everything that happened is what made you who you are.
I was going to say, you're going to probably ask me, what would I change? You know, interesting thing is, first of all, you never, ever want to change anything about your past. And here's why. If you love just the way you are, if you changed anything in your past, you will become a completely different person. Everything that happened is what made you who you are.
Fall in love with who you are today. Because the day you fall in love with yourself is the day the world will fall in love with you, right? To answer your question, what would I tell myself if I was young, is never let anyone tell you that what you're doing is simply a crazy idea and you should stop doing it. The more people think it's a crazy idea, that's the idea worth pursuing.
Fall in love with who you are today. Because the day you fall in love with yourself is the day the world will fall in love with you, right? To answer your question, what would I tell myself if I was young, is never let anyone tell you that what you're doing is simply a crazy idea and you should stop doing it. The more people think it's a crazy idea, that's the idea worth pursuing.
So dream so big that people think it's crazy and never, ever be afraid to fail because you only fail when you give up. And one of the lessons I learned from, this is from my daughter, by the way, when she started Abbey, and by the way, anyone who's listening to this, you should go check out abbey.com. This is one of the best women's health company. When she was starting Abbey,
So dream so big that people think it's crazy and never, ever be afraid to fail because you only fail when you give up. And one of the lessons I learned from, this is from my daughter, by the way, when she started Abbey, and by the way, anyone who's listening to this, you should go check out abbey.com. This is one of the best women's health company. When she was starting Abbey,
I said, sweetie, how is the company doing? How is your venture coming along? And she looks at me, said, dad, how little you know about entrepreneurship? And I said, wow, tell me why. And she says, dad, my job is simply to be experimenting. I am simply experimenting to see what might work until I figure that out. There is no company yet.
I said, sweetie, how is the company doing? How is your venture coming along? And she looks at me, said, dad, how little you know about entrepreneurship? And I said, wow, tell me why. And she says, dad, my job is simply to be experimenting. I am simply experimenting to see what might work until I figure that out. There is no company yet.
So the entrepreneur's job is to simply experiment and how many experiments you do actually gives the success. This is the idea that I just want to emphasize because this every entrepreneur should know. When something happens, they look at a success or a failure. If you look at that as an experiment, is this experiment has two outcomes, outcome A and outcome B. If outcome A happens, I do this.
So the entrepreneur's job is to simply experiment and how many experiments you do actually gives the success. This is the idea that I just want to emphasize because this every entrepreneur should know. When something happens, they look at a success or a failure. If you look at that as an experiment, is this experiment has two outcomes, outcome A and outcome B. If outcome A happens, I do this.
If outcome B happens, I do this. And if you think of this as an experiment, there is no failure. There is no A is success and B is a failure. It is simply two outcomes and each outcome has a different route. And as Edison says, I did not fail 10,000 times. I figured out the 10,000 ways the light bulb doesn't work and that allowed me to find a way that it actually works.
If outcome B happens, I do this. And if you think of this as an experiment, there is no failure. There is no A is success and B is a failure. It is simply two outcomes and each outcome has a different route. And as Edison says, I did not fail 10,000 times. I figured out the 10,000 ways the light bulb doesn't work and that allowed me to find a way that it actually works.
And that is the power of experimentation, not failure. So you never look at anything as a failure. You look at them as an experiment.
And that is the power of experimentation, not failure. So you never look at anything as a failure. You look at them as an experiment.
And, you know, someday we should really think about what is an entrepreneurship anyway. Entrepreneurship is simply about solving a problem. It's not about starting a company. You could be inside a company and be an entrepreneur because you're solving a problem. So there are three types of people in the world.
And, you know, someday we should really think about what is an entrepreneurship anyway. Entrepreneurship is simply about solving a problem. It's not about starting a company. You could be inside a company and be an entrepreneur because you're solving a problem. So there are three types of people in the world.