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When you first start out, you're going to have all of the energy, ambition, hopes, and excitement in the world that will fuel you through tough times, long hours, and the never-ending list of things to get done. That same eagerness can put blinders on you and make you downplay and ignore factors that tell you things aren't going the right way, or may not in the future. It can even make you think "I can get by it. It's not going to stop me!". That was my initial experience that caused me to fail during my first two businesses I started.