book. I have probably
a dozen of them here
in my office at work
and another dozen at
home. I carry one with
me wherever I go, even
if I go to a meeting
and I think this meeting’s going to be really
boring, I always have
one with me because
it’s amazing how many
ideas come out of a
boring meeting.
MM. Do you think
people have low selfesteem and that’s
why they don’t log
their potential?
KJ. Yes, I think many
people don’t get the
encouragement. They
may not get encouragement as a child which is
very sad. Maybe there’s
no-one at home who’s
really listening to their
ideas when they have
them, or it may be their
friends. I have a tenyear-old son and he’ll
come home and he’ll be
upset because he had
an idea and told his
friends, and his friends
all said it was silly. So
even children with each
other are already discouraging each other
about ideas sometimes.
So I think we have to
learn even from a very
young age to be open
to the ideas of other
people, even if we don’t
agree with them
MM. What is intelligent fast failure?
KJ. Intelligent fast failure says that I’m not
going to succeed every
time. I know I’m not, the
world doesn’t work that
way. We always fail at
19
something, and when it
happens we tend to say
‘that means that something’s wrong with me,
I failed because there’s
something wrong