You have been practicing failure abstinence your whole lives, trying to get as far from failure as possible. Focusing all of your time and training on successfully completing the tasks and projects you have been assigned.
It’s impossible to grow if you don’t have a clear understanding of what failure looks like, how to recognize it, what to do about it once you notice, and how to find the lessons and opportunities in every setback. That’s because our natural human instincts during a failure will only exacerbate the problem and cause added harm and damage. It’s actually very similar to our instinctual reaction to a fall.
Failure is not necessarily a stepping stone to success.
You’ve heard that saying, right? Either we succeed or we learn? Well, unfortunately, that’s not what usually happens. In most cases, people don’t actually learn or improve after a failure. That’s because in order to get to the coveted lessons learned, individuals have to wage war through the 6 stages of failure.
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Diana Kander is a New York Times Best-selling author, entrepreneur, innovation consultant, and keynote speaker who asks big questions.
This presentation is sponsored by Academic Affairs, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Student Affairs.