What happened to ready, fire, aim? Personally, I don't see it as a tragic event if all these blogs are failing. They deserve to fail sure, but that's really looking at it in the short term. If these unsuccessful bloggers all fall flat on their faces they'll learn a lot more about blogging and business than they would if they just stayed at jobs they hated. And they'll be building their skills in the process. Isn't that a major part of gaining skill, failure? The maturation process requires failure.
I thought the only real failure was giving up entirely. A failed blog, or any other failed endeavor is only really a failure if you don't learn from it and allow it to stop your growth. This seems like a contradiction from Steve's podcast where I'll paraphrase, "Follow your passion. Even if you absolutely suck at it, if you are passionate and you stick to it, you'll eventually get better." Those words made me cry when I heard them and they really help when I hit rough patches. Thank you Steve!!
Maybe I'm missing the point entirely. Maybe this latest post is about unrealistic expectations of success and the effort and time involved to achieve it? At any rate, I don't expect to never "fail" and as I see it those "failures" and persistence will only help me to build my skills and to grow. It's like a video game...no gamer wins a game without having their avatar killed numerous times. Their skill is directly related to their failure.