Mostafa Nezamparvar

Page 21 of the supplied copy

Lesson 14

English translation of the author’s Persian text. Source-page references refer to the original edition.

Author: Mostafa Nezamparvar · Original book text

Repairing a sail after a storm: a conceptual illustration of accepting failure and starting again
An educational illustration created with AI for this section of the book.

Always be prepared to fail. If you think that the first time you ship a product for export you will immediately become a famous trader, you are living in a fantasy world that even Disney has not created! Failure is part of this journey, but the first time a customer does not reply to an email, you will probably crawl under a blanket and cry to yourself about how the world has wronged you.