Ryan Leak > Quotes

“So, what’s your dream? What’s your sweet spot? How do the two fit together? Once you realize your dream and know that it aligns with your passion, skills, opportunities, and purpose, you can begin to take active steps toward chasing failure. In order to chase our dreams practically and realistically, keeping our sweet spot in mind, we need to count the cost of following our dreams.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“I’d love to tell you to never give up. But I’d rather tell you to fail at all the things early so you can chase your purpose and find your sweet spot.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“What’s worse: failing while trying or failing by not trying?”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is you could still fail after all of that. The good news is you’ll have learned more than a college degree could ever give you.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? If you could remove failure from the equation and you knew success was a guarantee, what would you do? Would you write a book? Build an app? Open up your own restaurant? Produce music? Kick off your own fashion line? Start your own YouTube channel? Create your own podcast? Film a documentary? Fly planes? Set up a nonprofit organization? What’s your idea that you would love to go for if you knew it was going to succeed?”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“Sometimes we have to lose a goal to find our destiny. Sometimes a failure helps us see what we really don’t want and that we want something else.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“But the greatest marketing strategy you can implement is simply doing a really good job at whatever you do.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“I’ve quit positions before to pursue dreams, but I did so with a lot of calculations from an equation I call the Sweet Spot Matrix. Your sweet spot is where your passion, skillset, opportunity, and purpose intertwine.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“Would you be so afraid to fail if you knew your failure would set someone else up to succeed?”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“Understand the difference between an opportunity that already exists and an opportunity you should create. A lot of dreamers often have to create opportunities.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success

“The technical term for the fear of failure is atychiphobia. The American Psychological Association defines atychiphobia as the persistent and irrational anxiety about failing to measure up to the standards and goals set by oneself or others.”
― Ryan Leak, Chasing Failure: How Falling Short Sets You Up for Success