“The greatest danger for most of us
is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it”
Michelangelo
is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it”
Michelangelo
A conversation with a friend of mine, today:
JH- Most healthcare start-ups never survive their first year.
LP- Maybe we don’t see enough start-ups failing.
JH- What do you mean? (!!!)
LP- You usually fail when you are trying to do new things.
JH- … (frowns)
LP- … but then you can learn from your failure and finally succeed if you persist. That’s the story of a lot of disruptive and successful start-ups in the market, but we don’t learn from them. We stigmatize mistakes. Most potential healthcare entrepreneurs are too frightened of being wrong. And if they are not prepared to be wrong, they will never come up with anything original.
I like people that aim high and miss, they usually learn and succeed.
Aim high!
2 comments:
There's a problem related with the professional culture of docs.
We are educated to avoid the mistakes. "Primum non nocere" principle is very deep in our minds.
"To err is not so human" when you are a medical doctor.
So the most successful medical students (and by extension medical doctors) are those who don't take risks, who "paint between the marks", who "follow the rules".
This is common to all education programs, not only medicine, as Tom Peters says in a post of my personal blog.
But in medicine, this problem is even more present.
gracias a Dios por intiresny
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