Posts from March 29th, 2023

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. 

Sara Blakely founded Spanx in her late 20s. The company made $4 million in sales in its first year and $10 million in its second year. In 2012, Forbes named Blakely the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. 

In an article about Blakely in Inc. magazine in 2017, she discussed how the best career advice she ever got came from conversations with her father as a child.

Blakeley is clearly a successful businesswoman. But the best advice she ever has received is not about success at all, quite the opposite. 

In the article, she talks about how, as a child, her father would sit her down at the dining room table and ask her the same question: 

"What did you fail at this week?" 

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