042: How to Fail Successfully
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Fear of failure can feel overwhelming and scary, so today I want to share with you how we can 'fail' successfully. As you're navigating the path towards your dreams and goals, you may hit some bumps along the way. It's important to know how to shift your mindset and pick yourself back up when you've fallen down. I'm giving you my best advice & tips on how we can do this, along with examples of how other big names and companies have taken action… instead of staying stuck.
What's In This Episode:
• Navigating your path toward a goal and understanding the opportunities it gives.
• Elizabeth Gilbert's story of how success can be just as blinding as failure.
• How to let your North Star guide you to where you truly want to go.
• Examples of how other people and companies have failed and picked themselves back up.
• Ways you can reflect & learn from failures, and take action instead of staying stuck.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.2 | To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at inkwellpress.com slash podcast. |
| 0:16.3 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:19.1 | Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner Rinkwell Press, and this is episode 42. |
| 0:28.5 | Today, we are continuing talking about our stumbling blocks on our journey to our big dreams |
| 0:34.7 | and goals. |
| 0:35.3 | So today, we are talking about how to fail successfully. |
| 0:39.6 | But before I get started, I want to give a quick shout out to our sponsor of today's episode. |
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| 0:59.7 | I'll be sharing all the details later on in the episode. |
| 1:03.3 | But for right now, I want to talk about how to fail successfully. |
| 1:08.4 | Failure is one of our biggest fears and this last week we talked a lot |
| 1:13.1 | about fears. So why is failure our biggest one? Well no one really wants to fail. No |
| 1:20.2 | one goes out there with an idea or a dream and thinks you know what it would be |
| 1:25.0 | really great if I'd fail because I'd really learn a lot |
| 1:28.1 | from that. Boy, it would really help me out. Of course, we all dread failure. But here's the |
| 1:34.6 | truth. There isn't a single success story that I can think of, including my own, that doesn't |
| 1:40.9 | include life-altering adversity. |
| 1:48.7 | J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has been quoted as saying, |
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