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There Is No Such Thing as Failure, Just the Need to Change Course
As a leader it is important not to get caught in the trap of viewing outcomes as failures. When you perceive something as a failure your ego is inextricably linked. This can cause you to enter the blame game (blaming yourself or others) which never results in a positive outcome. It also does not allow you to make optimal decisions and to be open to new opportunities.
Rather as a Mindful leader, you are aware that some things work and others things don’t work as well. So your mental attitude becomes one of changing course in a direction of educated exploration, in an attempt to arrive at a desirable or intended outcome. Imagine that you are sailing, you have plotted a course and the winds suddenly change. You wouldn’t view that as a failure. You would merely realize that conditions have changed and that you need to change course to work with that reality. In this example there is no failure, just changing course.
I am particularly fond of a quote by Thomas Edison on this topic. “I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
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