From the course: Learning from Failure
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What causes failure?
From the course: Learning from Failure
What causes failure?
- Owning up to your mistakes is step one. Taking corrective action is step two. So let's talk about how to figure out what went wrong. First thing I want you to do is focus on adopting a learning mentality. That's a mindset focused on understanding and improving. The goal is the acquisition of new skills and insights. The backbone of this type of mentality is an openness to possibilities. Openness is somewhat driven by personality, but it's also a choice you can make. You see, some people think that solving problems is about applying what you know, but that's only part of it. The real trick is to seek to find something new. So remember that openness is best viewed as a choice. Now, here's something interesting. Sometimes, to move forward, you have to look backwards. A learning mentality is about new possibilities, but that's often created by learning from the past. That's why following a setback, you have to conduct a root cause analysis. That's a structured way to get past looking at…
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