Why Talented People Fail and Tenacious People Don't (The U2 Roadie Who Proved It)
A psychologist told Scott Scovill it would be easier for him to grab a red-hot stove and hang on than to try at anything. His fear of failure was that severe. It flunked him out of college and left him waiting tables at a roadside Howard Johnson's.
Then a tour bus rolled in one day, and everything he believed about talent, fear, and what it takes to make it got dismantled.
In this conversation, Kayvon pulls apart how a college dropout with a clinical fear of failure snuck into U2 shows for five weeks with a homemade laminate, lived in his car, worked for free, and landed on the biggest…
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