BRX Pro Tip: Don’t be Afraid to Make Mistakes
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Stone Payton and Lee Kantor here with you. Lee, sometimes, you’re having to fight a little bit of human nature here, but it’s important, I think, that you don’t be afraid to make mistakes.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:15] Yeah. I think a lot of times people’s fear of making a mistake holds them back. And it doesn’t matter what they’re doing whether you’re starting a new career and you’re a young person or you’re a startup and you have an idea and you want to kind of preplan it out a little too much. I think you’re much better served if you just start taking action, learning and iterating.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:39] I think that that formula of taking some action, learning what happened because of the action, and then tweaking whatever you learn from taking that action is much better than the folks that are just planning the plan to plan before they act. You don’t learn anything by doing nothing and hoping something is going to work out. You don’t really learn anything by just whiteboarding things over and over and playing out every hypothetical scenario without real data. You have to take some chances.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:11] Your action may work and may not work as you planned. But if you don’t take action, you’re not going to know for sure. And if you take an action and it doesn’t work out like you planned, you will have learned something. You know now something that doesn’t work. And, plus, you’re going to get market information to tell you, you know what, this part worked a little bit. This part didn’t work at all. So you are going to learn something. You’re going to be taught something from taking that action. So in my opinion, it is much better to err on the side of action, learn and iterate.
