From the course: Learning from Failure
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Develop yourself through failures
From the course: Learning from Failure
Develop yourself through failures
- Let's be clear. Using your mistakes, setbacks and failures to build stronger relationships with others is only one benefit. Arguably, the biggest benefit is how these challenging situations will help you personally grow as a professional. Here I'm referring to your mental skillset and disposition, your fundamental daily persona and how it will change and improve as you begin to learn to frame failures positively. It takes a lot of work to systematically think through what caused a failure and what to do about it. The good news is that with practice, you'll learn something useful and your daily attitude will become stronger. Let me be specific. By learning to embrace failure, you'll grow stronger in terms of compassion, humility, courage, and perspective. Let's think about each one briefly. First is compassion. Humans are wired to judge and sometimes think arrogant thoughts. The more you choose to openly face your failures, own them and learn from them, the more you'll be able to see…
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