Why Does Brad Jacobs Stop Expecting Flawlessness?

David Senra reads Brad Jacobs's line that he stopped expecting flawlessness from himself and from other people, because perfection is impossible and losing your center is not a failure. Jacobs expects a flawed world to produce outcomes he does not like. He is okay with those outcomes. Good things can come from them, or he can learn from them. Once he dropped the demand for flawlessness, he could let go of the frustration and use the energy.

He has built that mindset into the culture of each new company he starts. Mistakes are not failures. They are the substance of growth.

Senra also reads Jacobs on why a setback still feels like an alarm. For skittish ancestors, treating a harmless rustle in the bushes as danger gave a survival edge over people who ignored potential threats. That vigilance was passed down. Today the same wiring can leave someone anxious in a safe place, with adrenaline, a racing heart, and cycles of worry. Jacobs says he could not have built global public companies without embracing calculated risk. Those feelings are echoes of an old survival strategy, not a reliable guide for the decision in front of him.