#50: How to Master Mistakes
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Anyone who tries things, takes risks, grows, and learns, is going to make mistakes. Mastering mistakes isn't so much about stopping mistakes altogether, as it is about learning how to handle them when they happen - and also how to handle when others make them too. In this episode, Dave shares how to handle mistakes like a game changer, so that you stay focused, in your zone, and making progress towards your most bold and compelling goals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the game change your life. I'm Dave Anderson. I want to talk to you in this |
| 0:16.8 | episode about how to master mistakes. How to master mistakes. Now, there are a couple |
| 0:21.7 | different ways to take that title, I guess, how to stop making mistakes. And that's certainly |
| 0:26.1 | important, but I believe people that try things that take shots that learn, that grow, right, |
| 0:30.5 | that risk, they're going to make mistakes. So when I'm talking about mastering mistakes, |
| 0:34.6 | I'm talking about how to handle them when it happens. And we may even have a few |
| 0:39.4 | minutes to talk about how to handle it when others make the mistakes as well. We'll kind of have |
| 0:43.7 | to see how this goes. Listen, we're going to make mistakes. That's not the point. I believe, |
| 0:48.5 | in most cases, the more you try, the more mistakes you make. Thomas Watson said one time he really started making |
| 0:55.9 | progress in his life when he doubled his failure rate because that meant he was trying more |
| 1:01.0 | things. And by the way, that's the gentleman that founded IBM. I guess the people who really don't |
| 1:06.1 | make mistakes or many mistakes are the ones that don't do much. You know, if you're a caretaker |
| 1:10.0 | sitting on your errand all day, polishing a chair with your behind, sucking your thumb, waiting for five o'clock to come, |
| 1:15.8 | you're probably not making a lot of mistakes, but going through life in that posture is probably |
| 1:22.1 | the biggest mistake of all if you think about it. So let's talk about how to master mistakes, |
| 1:26.9 | how to handle it when it happens. |
| 1:28.5 | I believe if you handle it the right way, okay, you stay in your zone, you're focused on progress, |
| 1:33.6 | you learn from it, you get better because of it, right? You grow as a result of it. If you handle it |
| 1:38.2 | the wrong way, you're out of your zone, you lose trust with people, you start to become reluctant and tentative to try anything new again, |
| 1:47.7 | right? Because you just don't look at it the right way. And that can cause you to start to decline. |
| 1:52.0 | So let's get into the content. But before we do, it's time for our quick hit Q&A. As you know, |
| 2:00.5 | you can post questions here. I've addressed a lot of questions |
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