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[Video] Steve Jobs on Asking For Help

August 17th, 2015 - by Alyssa Shea

We stumbled upon a pretty old video featuring Steve Jobs. In it, he talks about how he asked for help and why you should be willing to fail.

Steve Jobs has been mentioned before here on The Failure Blog. Particularly because he was no stranger to failure. So when we found this short video of him talking about reaching out for help and failing along the way, we just had to share it with all of you. Check it out below!

We couldn’t agree more. Our favorite part would have to be this line:

“You’ve got to be willing to fail. You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. You know, with people on the phone, with starting a company, with whatever. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. Failure helps breed success!

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