Too Long; Didn't Read
More than a decade ago I was privileged to meet <a href="http://www.jimcollins.com/" target="_blank">Jim Collins</a> who spoke at an <a href="https://www.accessfund.org/" target="_blank">Access Fund</a> event. As a lifelong <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/climber" target="_blank">climber</a>, Jim spoke about his provocative <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/47527/leadership-lessons-rock-climber" target="_blank">article</a> that I re-ready yearly, relating lessons from climbing to business: the concept of “fallure” vs. “failure” — failing after you commit to go all-in vs. giving up right at the cusp of failure, which look the same externally but are drastically different internally; and not letting the probability of failure overshadow the consequence of failure (and vice-versa) — exactly why so many Stanford <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/mba" target="_blank">MBA</a> graduates opt for <a href="http://poetsandquants.com/2014/09/18/stanford-gsb-doesnt-want-the-graduate-school-entrepreneurship/" target="_blank">entrepreneurship</a>.