Varsha Venugopal

I think there's a whole classic book on this, which is called...

feel the fear and do it anyway and especially I think as an entrepreneur you get thrown in uncomfortable situations quite a lot and I think consciously and deliberately choosing to do that in your daily life whatever that is I know buying something expensive you otherwise absolutely wouldn't or talking loudly somewhere where you wouldn't it just I think in a way helps you increase your comfort zone and helps you face some of those uncomfortable situations better.

Yeah.

Another one my colleagues talk about is the idea of collecting failures, which I again think is super useful for entrepreneurs to think about.

I know in fundraising, it's almost a stat, right?

You have 90%

negative responses for every 10% positive.

So it's almost again, deliberately aiming to go get those negatives.

So you can increase the odds for some of the positives.

Or consider it a failure, but celebrate it anyway.

So go out there and collect some of them.

Maybe it doesn't have to be, you know, huge failures, but just on a daily basis, you know, you may be afraid to go talk to someone, but just do it because it's another failure in your part.

Yeah, I think at some point it almost became a meme, right?

There was some Princeton professor who posted something on all his failures.

And I think, yeah, it took it to a different level.

But I think fundamentally there is something there we could all aspire to do more of, fail.

So every Monday, Fiona and I try and have a conversation on are we hitting our broad OKRs, objectives and key results for the next three months?

What is our plan for the week?

And so a lot of, I guess, reflection, but also long term thinking of are we on track?

On a more day-to-day basis, we also have Wednesdays.