Resilience over Success

Product management is hard. Really hard.

You’ll ship features that fail. You’ll make decisions that backfire. You’ll face stakeholders who block you, users who ignore you, and markets that reject you. The only way through is through.

What This Means in Practice

• Treat setbacks as data, not verdicts
• Build a support network for hard days
• Celebrate effort and learning, not just wins
• Remember: every successful PM has a graveyard of failures

The Anti-Pattern

You’re violating this pillar when you:

• Take failures personally
• Give up after the first setback
• Compare your behind-the-scenes to others’ highlight reels
• Let one bad quarter define your career

The Mantra

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese proverb

The only failure is giving up.