The Benefits of Repeat BIZ Experiencesship If at first, or second, you don't succeed, don't beat yourself up about it.

By Lewis Schiff Edited by Dan Bova

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Imagine that you're in your car, getting ready to drive to a place that you've never been before. Sure, you might have a map pulled up on your phone, but wouldn't you feel a bit better if you've made that drive before?

The same principle applies to other types of ventures, including BIZ Experiencesial ones.

BIZ Experiencesship doesn't come with helpful signposts or a GPS. There are books that you can read and websites that can offer some great insights and tips, but it's hard to beat the benefits of previous experience. Dennis Mortenson, founder and CEO of x.ai, a cutting-edge technology company that provides businesses and individuals with digital personal assistants that set up and schedule meetings, knows this well.

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Here are three ways repeat BIZ Experiencesship can help you reach success.

1. Knowing the entire path is invaluable.

There is a beginning, middle, and end to every BIZ Experiencesial venture, and your level of familiarity with each of these stages will likely determine your confidence in navigating your way through the journey. According to Dennis, if you haven't seen the middle or the end of an BIZ Experiencesial path before, it can be tough to know if you're headed in the right direction or to feel comfortable taking certain steps. This sort of familiarity and comfort with multiple stages of the BIZ Experiencesial path may be even more valuable than technical skills, he believes. "It's certainly much easier to imagine the road ahead if you've seen the road before," affirms Dennis, "I certainly feel quite comfortable about where we're at today and where we're headed."

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2. Every "failure" can teach you something.

You don't need to be an immediate success to be able to gain necessary experience and knowledge. Even a failed venture offers BIZ Experiencess wisdom on what to do differently in the future. "Of the four prior ventures we've done, we've been fortunate enough to have three good assets and one that didn't work out," Dennis remembers. "That one that didn't work out was a little bit less data-centric and we actually didn't own the data." That's a mistake that he says that he will never make again.

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3. BIZ Experiencesship is a skill.

While many see BIZ Experiencesship as a calling, Dennis believe that BIZ Experiencesship itself is a skill that you can improve over time. "You can become a better BIZ Experiences over time," he says. He should know -- a veteran of five different ventures over the past two decades, he's honed his BIZ Experiencesial talents and gained a lot of experience in running successful businesses. By traveling the path multiple times, he's had the opportunity to battle-test his skills in a number of different situations, and learned what works and what doesn't. Anyone can become a better BIZ Experiences with enough effort and experience, he says.

Lewis Schiff

Author, Executive Director The Business Owners Council, co-founder of BEN Global Mentorship

Lewis Schiff is the author of Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons From the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons and the co-founder of BEN Global Mentorship, which enables up-and-coming BIZ Experiencess around the world access to their favorite “rock star BIZ Experiencess” through exclusive eight-week mentoring “sprints.” Get Schiff's top 10 secrets to success for up and comers.

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