Daily Leadership Thought #127 – Learn From Your Mistakes
All successful people that I know learn from their mistakes and readily admit them. In fact, a significant mistake or two often serves as a pivotal moment in their career. If you aren’t making mistakes, then you aren’t taking enough risks or pushing yourself hard enough to truly understand your potential. You must be willing to risk failure to achieve genuine success. Otherwise, you risk a lifetime of mediocrity.
If you approach it with the right attitude, making mistakes can be a powerful catalyst for learning. Debriefing the cause and effect of your actions and understanding what you should do differently next time builds professional maturity and personal humility. This does not imply that you view failure as the ultimate goal; on the contrary, it’s the opposite. However, when things don’t go as planned, you accept it, learn from it, and move on.
When success comes too easily, people often don’t appreciate it. They start to believe that what made them successful is something inherent to their being rather than the result of experience, timing, hard work, determination, sound judgment, and some good luck. They start to have opinions on all sorts of things they know very little about and believe their actions to be almost bulletproof. In most cases, life has a way of humbling them and teaching them that failure is a part of human existence. No one moves through life unscathed or without learning necessary lessons. The important question for you to consider is, “Are you listening to what business and life are trying to teach you?”
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- Morty Lefkoe: How Do You Get What You Want in Life? (huffingtonpost.com)
- Thankful for My Mistakes (ashleyormon.wordpress.com)
- Failure Is The Only Option If Success Is The End Goal (fastcompany.com)
- Celebration of our Mistakes (fairygodmuma.wordpress.com)
- When Failure Is A Success (ahechoes.wordpress.com)
