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737: 3 Ways to Turn Failure into Success – Heather Crockett

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737: 3 Ways to Turn Failure into Success – Heather Crockett

What’s one thing all successful people do? They fail — a lot! To help you do it right, Kirk Behrendt brings back Heather Crockett, one of ACT’s amazing coaches, to share some insight into overcoming and embracing failure. Stop fearing your mistakes and shortcomings. Change your mindset and be excited to fail! To learn the three strategies to succeed from your failures, listen to Episode 737 of The Best Practices Show!

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Main Takeaways:

  • You should fail often.
  • Failure is where the learning is.
  • Fear of failure won’t get you anywhere.
  • Identify and discuss your failures to solve it.
  • Encourage experimentation to make progress.
  • Plan to fail often. When you fail often, you learn often.
  • When there’s a failure, blame the system — not the person.
  • Let your team see your failure first. Show them it’s okay to fail.
  • Aim for GETMO — Good Enough To Move On — not perfection.

Snippets:

0:00 Introduction.

2:09 Why this is an important topic.

4:16 Recognize and call out your failures.

5:19 Blame the system, not the person.

7:07 Take a deep breath and process.

9:05 Identify, discuss, and solve.

11:57 Learn from the failure you’ve identified.

15:47 Encourage experimentation.

16:58 GETMO (Good Enough To Move On).

17:57 An example of learning from failure.

21:36 Final thoughts.

Heather Crockett…


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