Amy Edmondson on how to fail better

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In a society that rewards perfectionism, failure can be a hard pill to swallow. Even when we make silly mistakes, it can make us question our capabilities and intelligence, but what if we flipped this script on failure? Today’s guest wants us to embrace the mistakes we make and even encourages us to “fail better.” Amy Edmondson is the author of Right Kind of Wrong: The science of failing well, which dissects the power of intelligent failure and our ability to create environments where people feel free to try, fail, and try again. She sits down with Jessi to break down some examples of complex failures in our world and to share takeaways that can help move us forward. Follow Amy Edmondson on LinkedIn and check out her book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:19.6	LinkedIn News
0:24.9	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel,
0:27.5	and this is Hello Monday.
0:29.2	It's our show about the changing nature of work,
0:31.7	and how that work is changing all of us.
0:35.7	There's this approach to life in which you kind of play it safe.
0:40.0	You attempt only the things that you know you can do well,
0:43.1	and you'll probably succeed at them.
0:45.5	But you have to ask yourself, what will you really have accomplished?
0:49.8	I mean, there's a way to sort of look successful where you're playing not to lose.
0:54.8	You know, not taking any risks that you aren't
0:57.4	rock solid sure are going to pay off, right?
1:00.4	So they're not really risks at all.
1:01.7	They're just things you're going to do that you can nail that, right?
1:04.5	And that is a way of at least partial success
1:07.9	and maybe even looking successful.
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