From the course: Learning from Failure
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Failure is part of learning
From the course: Learning from Failure
Failure is part of learning
- Let's start with a powerful idea. Everyone fails. When you fail you need to remember that you're in great company. Before she was the queen of television, Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first television job. Walt Disney started multiple companies that completely failed before successfully creating the Disney empire. Now, what makes them so special? Is it their amazing talent and intelligence? Maybe, but most experts point to something else, work ethic, tenacity, and a strong desire to not give up. They were willing to fail, many times. While most people would have quit after one big failure, they refused. Instead they did what all accomplished people do. They embraced the success cycle which goes like this. Try, fail, learn, succeed. Now, the first three parts, try, fail, learn, sometimes have to be repeated many times to produce one particular success. It's the same for everyone. The successful people in any domain all follow the same pattern. They don't feel shame because they…
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