From the course: Learning from Failure
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Self-improvement challenge
From the course: Learning from Failure
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.
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