Self-improvement challenge

- Let me close out this course with this advice. … Remember the success cycle, try, fail, learn, succeed. … That process applies to you, me, and everyone in between. … You can kick start the process of using your new perspective … on failure with a little retrospective analysis. … Do some thinking and try to identify the top two … or three projects or situations that represent … your biggest personal failures in the last five years. … Okay, for those top few failures, ask why it happened. … Try a little root cause analysis as we discussed earlier. … Reach out to a few key players who were also involved … to gain their frank and candid insight … about your role in the matter. … Now, compare notes across those two or three situations. … It's likely that part of the explanation … for each failure is similar. … The point is that if you see a cause that is recurring, … that's where you have to start to focus, … where you can begin to embrace the success cycle, … try, fail, learn, and succeed. …