Without Accountability, You Can’t Build Credibility

Wonderful Aling Aling Waterfall among lush greenery of Sambangan mountainous area on Bali Island
Photo by ArtHouse Studio

Without accountability, without taking responsibility for your life, you can’t build a great life. Without taking responsibility for your life, you can’t move forward in your life. Don’t fear accountability. Don’t let it stop you from living your life. Don’t let it stop you from taking risks.

To grow, you must take risks. According to Naval Ravikant, “Embrace accountability and take business risks under your own name. Society will reward you with responsibility, equity, and leverage. … Clear accountability is important. Without accountability, you don’t have incentives. Without accountability, you can’t build credibility. But you take risks. You risk failure. You risk humiliation. You risk failure under your own name.” If you want to be successful, you must embrace risks.

You risk failure under your own name. You risk embarrassment under your own name. You risk take responsibility under your own name. Don’t risk anything under another person’s name. Risk everything under your own name. Because it is not about them. It is about you. It is about your growth, your success, your life. Embrace risks and move forward under your own name.

Do Not Despair Because Of Failure

Photo Of Snow Capped Mountains During Dawn
Photo by Francesco Ungaro

If you are scared of failure, then you don’t want to succeed. According to James Allen, “Do not despair because of failure. From your particular failure there is a special greatness, a peculiar wisdom, to be gained; and no teacher can lead you to that greatness, that wisdom, more surely and swiftly than your experience of failure.

In every mistake you make, in every fall you encounter, there is a lesson of vital import if you will but search it out; and he who will stop to discover the good in that which appears to be disastrous will rise superior to every event, and will utilize his failure winged steeds to bear him to a final and supreme success.”