Peoples as well as individuals can learn more from failures as from successes. Failure can certainly be agonizing. It might even be catastrophic. Most failures, however, aren't catastrophic; they are merely "expectation failures." In order to develop those self-correcting mechanisms, it must learn from its failures.
After people fail on a task, it doesn’t matter whether they focus on successes or failures. They will learn so long as they do after events review.
After people succeed at something, it is especially important to have them focus on what things went wrong. When failure happens, the most important thing is to have an after event review to provoke sufficiently deep thinking whether you talk about successes or failures is less important.
Because it’s not about knowing the mistake and avoiding it. It’s about putting up with it. Learning the lesson. Once you learned the lesson, you won’t be attracted to that failure again. The glue to the failure is the fact that you didn’t consume it entirely.
Remove the stigma of failure. The initial response to failure cannot be punitive. The pursuit of cause must not be driven by the desire or need to assign fault or blame. Leaders must foster a culture that makes it safe to fail if there is any chance of cultivating the trust required for folks to freely and readily share bad news.
Failure is a learning opportunity. The first impulse and the immediate response to failure should be to learn from that failure. This learning is used to correct, minimize, or overcome the failure and apply all associated insights to attempt to prevent failures in the future.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
- Og Mandino -
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
- Abraham Lincoln -
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers -
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard -