<p>A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing. &#8212; George Bernard Shaw</p>
<p>According to Global Entrepreneurial Monitor (GEM) fear of failure is the top reason given in Ireland and worldwide by aspiring entrepreneurs for not starting their own businesses.</p>
<p>NESTA &#8211; the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and the UK&#8217;s largest early stage investor in innovative and creative businesses &#8212; found that almost three quarters of people who said they had what they believed was a good business idea were not acting on it because they were afraid of not succeeding. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2009/02/entrepreneurship-the-failure-myth-by-kevin-kelly/" title="Permanent Link: Entrepreneurship &#8211; the Failure Myth By Kevin Kelly" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":55,"date":"2009-02-10T07:31:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T12:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/02\/entrepreneurship-the-failure-myth-by-kevin-kelly\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T23:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T04:04:37","slug":"entrepreneurship-the-failure-myth-by-kevin-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/02\/entrepreneurship-the-failure-myth-by-kevin-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurship &#8211; the Failure Myth By Kevin Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing. &#8212; George Bernard Shaw<\/p>\n<p>According to Global Entrepreneurial Monitor (GEM) fear of failure is the top reason given in Ireland and worldwide by aspiring entrepreneurs for not starting their own businesses.<\/p>\n<p>NESTA &#8211; the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and the UK&#8217;s largest early stage investor in innovative and creative businesses &#8212; found that almost three quarters of people who said they had what they believed was a good business idea were not acting on it because they were afraid of not succeeding. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2009\/02\/entrepreneurship-the-failure-myth-by-kevin-kelly\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Entrepreneurship &#8211; the Failure Myth By Kevin Kelly\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}