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How Failure Can Breed Success

No entrepreneur starts out to fail; on the contrary, the notion of success is the fuel that powers them to make decisions, achieve goals and realize their dreams. Only half of businesses make it to their fifth birthday – so that’s a 50% chance of surviving. However, failure has been the key ingredient to many a successful entrepreneur’s story.

When you research the traits that entrepreneurs invariably possess, you will come across lists that include:

Self-starter
Competitive
Confident
Determined
Disciplined
Passionate

The mix of these traits are essential for anyone who wants to start and develop their own business, but even those people who are blessed with these characteristics can have businesses that don’t succeed. Why is that? The answer is because they don’t have resilience or the ability to reflect objectively, adapt and learn from the challenges they ha
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