How to Keep Past Failures Out of a New Venture and Find the Courage to Start Again

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekThe fear of starting overFearF/Friend / friendsDecisions, action, and self-sabotageChildren, parenting, and family life

What is said here

• 00:00How do you separate yourself from past failures and start something new without looking back at the mistakes you made? That question immediately raises many questions for me.Children · The fear of starting over
• 01:24Or do you think everyone who has children specifically wanted them, made a plan, set a goal, and wrote, “I want a child”?Children · Health
• 02:47The person has invented the question. They are not at the level of understanding their own reality where they need to be, and they fall into a serious trap, endlessly chewing over whether…Fear · Spirit
• 04:13That was the last time. You know it with such certainty that even if the whole mental, social, and learned world tells you to act because you…Cause and effect · Time · Spirit
• 05:40For example: “I earned a thousand dollars here because I inherited five thousand and invested it. That brought in an extra thousand.”Friend / friends
• 06:55You may run out of time. Second, who told you it would work out for you? Some people succeed on their first attempt. Some never even get the chance to try.Fear · Children
• 08:13Not necessarily. Some people have neither fear nor desire. They simply live peacefully.IPO — initial public offering · Walmart
• 09:28Without trying to predict in advance, “I guarantee this will never happen to me again. Fifteen plants died, but the sixteenth will not.”Cause and effect · The Universe · Spirit
• 11:14But then you have forgotten other people. As soon as you do that, you violate the laws of the Universe. Where other people are involved, there is no concept of good and bad for you alone.Time · The Universe

Claims made here

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• 00:08

  That question immediately raises many questions for me.

  Alexander Volchek

• 00:18

  They say, “There is so much I want to do, but I cut myself off from many additional opportunities because I am afraid it might not work out.”

  Alexander Volchek

• 01:24

  Or do you think everyone who has children specifically wanted them, made a plan, set a goal, and wrote, “I want a child”?

  Alexander Volchek

• 02:28

  That is why this line of reasoning raises a big question for me: I am trying to get to the real structure of what the person wants to know.

  Alexander Volchekcause

• 04:58

  Someone says, “I managed to build a business,” and concludes, “So I can start a second one.”

  Alexander Volchek

• 05:23

  When I ask myself whether I can earn a thousand dollars this year because I earned it last year, I examine the various causes and effects that made it possible, rather than looking abstractly at the final result.

  Alexander Volchekcausecomparison

• 06:57

  Second, who told you it would work out for you? Some people succeed on their first attempt.

  Alexander Volchek

• 08:14

  Some people have neither fear nor desire.

  Alexander Volchekcauseprinciple

• 11:41

  Someone bought shares and made money, while someone else sold those shares and lost money.

  Alexander Volchekcomparison

• 12:58

  That is why we say people are being born and dying simultaneously in the world.

  Alexander Volchek