The intelligent failure is not only okay, it's praiseworthy. If everything you try just goes perfectly, you're probably not stretching very much.

And that's not a way to be awesome at your job.

Once you recognize that little emotion taking hold, that kind of your

amygdala gets hooked and says this is just terrible, you pause and you say no, you

force yourself to say this is inconvenient.

That's my favorite word, right? It's inconvenient because yep, it's inconvenient and it's not the end of the world.

Choose learning over knowing and it's an active choice. We have to

choose it because our habitual cognitive response is to feel like we know, feel like

we see reality. We have to get curious. We have to choose learning over knowing.

That's Amy Edmond. She helps teams team better. She's the Novartis

professor of leadership and management at the Harvard Business School and the leading expert on psychological safety.

Thinkers 50 ranked her the number one most influential management thinker two years in a row.

She's written several of award-winning books and today she's going to discuss her latest called the right kind of wrong, the science of feeling well.

So you'll learn one, what separates good failure from bad

failure to the surprisingly simple tool that prevents many failures and

three, how to stay motivated in the face of failure. I'm Pete McKitis.

This is how to be awesome at your job,

and now here's Amy.

Amy, welcome back.

Great to be back. Well, I am super excited to hear your wisdom and talking about failing well, and I'd like it if you could kick us off with

one of your favorite failures, personally or professionally?

My favorite failure has to be the time as a second year PhD student.

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