By Stephen Wunker
The world loves to celebrate visionaries. We think about their successes and feel confident that some super-beings can peer through the mists to chart the future. Yet most of these people got things wrong over and over again. Apple Lisa computer? Dud. Apple Newton? Ditto. Apple TV? The jury is out.
Repeatedly successful visionaries can conjure great ideas with wild enthusiasm, and then can look coldly at how their inventions actually register in the marketplace. They learn from what doesn’t work, and they are comfortable with failure. If you must always succeed, you will never take risks and you will learn very little in your career.
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