Planning for failure

And then, there is failure.…Failure is inevitable as you disrupt yourself.…My wails of fails include not making…cheerleader my junior year in high school, bombing…a speech in front of hundreds of people,…being fired and backing a business that imploded.…When I fail, no matter how many chirpy quotes I may tweet,…I'm despondent, pessimistic and I want to move because I can never show…my face in public ever again. Margery Howell said,…"There's dignity in suffering, nobility in pain, but failure…is a salted wound that burns and burns again."…According to psychologist Dr. Brené Brown, failure is especially…acute for athletes, the military, and corporate professionals.…

When the ethos is, kill or…be killed, control or be controlled, failure is being killed.…And it elicits tremendous shame.…It breeds questions like, how could I claim to be a…savvy investor when I backed a business that went belly up?…Daring to disrupt is daring to fail.…And what we can learn from failure is essential to innovation.…What I'd like you to do, then, is to reframe this.…