A badge of honour

Keep trying: Success rates for entrepreneurs rise with multiple attempts.

Having been back in Malaysia for the past 10 months, I noticed that each time I talk about failure in an interview or to a group of entrepreneurs, Malaysians seem aghast at the very notion of it. And then after a moment, they’ll have a revelation that failing is not so bad after all.

Perhaps it’s a cultural thing, but we are often too afraid to fail as we perceive it as detrimental to our future.