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You’ve Overpriced Failure

You think failure costs everything, they think it costs nothing—that’s the only difference

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Scott D. Clary
Jan 05, 2026
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A pattern I’ve noticed in successful people: They’re all a little bit delusional about their abilities.

Not arrogant. Just unreasonably optimistic about what they can figure out. While everyone else is listing reasons why something won’t work, they’re already trying it. Half the time they’re wrong. But the other half changes their life.

Reasonable people don’t build unreasonable lives.

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