A Harvard Professor Teaches You How to Fail Better With These Three Easy Psychological Habits
You block your progress by wasting your failures if you don’t practice these habits.
Fail fast and fail often is a gem bestowed on us from Silicon Valley. Many founders believe that failing is the key to finding a solution that works.
But Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson doesn’t agree with this advice, she believes it to be a futile attempt at victory.
Failing intelligently on the other hand can help you improve your performance and increase your chances of a successful attempt.
Here are three things that you need to keep in mind to fail successfully, without these habits don’t even bother trying.
1. Failure Only Matters If You Follow A Single Goal
u Effort is a prerequisite for failure. You can’t fail without work, this reasoning makes it easier to justify failure.
It doesn’t hurt if you fail at something you don’t care about. You won’t bat an eyelid and you’ll move on faster than you can rip a band-aid.
We wear failure as a badge of honor as it signifies our commitment to work, that’s why it hurts so…
