I interviewed a former finance professor with a PhD, while I was planning to talk to him about his successes as an Internet entrepreneur. All he wanted to talk about was his defining moment at age twenty-eight. At this point in his life he was ridiculed in national news for his colloquial statements about wealth and racial disparities. With pressure to fire him from former students of the university he worked for and public protest demanding his dismissal. He decided to leave his high-paying career. Here he was twenty-eight years old with no career or certainty of his financial future. Yet three years later, he had one of the web's most popular financial sites, a popular documentary he directed, and a YouTube channel viewed by more than five million people a month. He said the year he was forced to leave college made him the man he had become. I asked him how he bounced back and achieved success on his own. He simply stated that you failed and that you failed fast. He became fearless and acted so hard that failure was inventable, and yet it was