I am having more and more discussions on this topic with my entrepreneur friends. We all know academically when failure is imminent but we lack the balls to admit the failure and walk away.

I have two young children who have just finished celebrating the birthday of Dr Suess. This has allowed us to reread some of the great books he's written. Yesterday happened to be Oh, the places you'll go, in which we get the sage advice, "I'm sorry to say so but, sadly its true that bang ups and hang ups can happen to you." It goes on "You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?" (I could go on and on, the Dr. really nails it in this one)

This is in a book aimed at graduates! How quickly we let that lesson get drowned out.