Which describes your approach to failure?
written by Sandy - April 27th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
In the book “Failing Forward” it asks that you consider the following lists and compare your approach:
Failing Backward Failing Forward
Blaming others Taking Responsibility
Repeating the same mistakes Learning from each mistake
Expecting not to fail again Knowing failure is part of progress
Accepting tradition blindly Challenging outdated assumptions
Being limited by past mistakes Taking new risks
Thinking I am a failure Believing something didn’t work
Quitting Persevering
Think about a recent setback you experienced. How did you respond? No matter how difficult our problems are, the key to overcoming them doesn’t lie in changing our circumstances, it’s in changing ourselves. That in itself is a process and begins with the desire to be teachable. Are you to quick to judge isolated situations and label them as failures? Changing your perspective on failure will help you to persevere and ultimately achieve your desires. Remember we all fail, and we all make mistakes. The question is what will you do with what you have learned from your mistakes?
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