The true warrior is not afraid to make mistakes. In fact, the true warrior is all about celebrating failures. The true warrior knows that making mistakes, and learning from them, is the pathway to success. If you never make a mistake, you are playing it too safe and being too conservative. To move ahead, and make progress in your life, you must take calculated risks. That is what The Lean Startup, a book by Eric Ries is all about.

That book, and its concept, is a tool of the true warrior, well-articulated and full of great examples to help with your comprehension. I recommend it highly to anyone looking to improve themselves, in business and in life. It’s guiding principles are “try something, measure it, and learn.” It is all about doing more of what works and less of what doesn’t. To figure out if something is working, it must be measured or evaluated. You have to pay attention to what you are doing, and ask yourself, “Is what I am doing working?”

By working, I mean moving the results towards positive, meaningful metrics1.

Join the team of true warriors who embrace failure, learn what is not working, and change not working into working at every opportunity! They do not wait until it is so obvious that something or someone is not working. They take action as soon as possible to implement a change so as to avoid insanity! The true warrior knows that it is far better to come up with a plan to fix something that is not working, and implement it, than to have to answer questions about why they are not doing so.

You are warriors, and by embracing failure, failing often, and learning what is working (and doing more of it), you will live a life of success and glory, rather than one of failure and penitence. So it has been written.