Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1748.

Today we are talking about the power of vulnerability. You cannot underestimate the power of normalizing and sharing your failures, your fears, your worries, your mistakes, openly sharing them with

those who you care about. If you're a leader, you cannot underestimate the power of owning up

to your mistakes to your team. As parents, you cannot underestimate the power of sharing your mistakes with your kids.

When those who you lead can hear you, the leader, own up and take accountability for your

mistakes to normalize your fears, you give them permission to do the same.

And not to create an environment where everyone just shares their feelings and we're all

scared or we all mess up.

No, it's to create a high functioning, high performance organization.

Because it's not just about normalizing mistakes and saying that you messed up.

It's about showing them what you're

going to do about it. Hey, I'm scared and this is how I'm going to respond. Hey, I'm stressed out.

And this is what I'm going to do to minimize that in order to perform at a high level.

Hey, I made a mistake. These are the lessons I learned. And this is what I'm going to do to

protect myself from happening again next time. And so a lot. These are the lessons I learned. And this is what I'm going to do to protect myself

from happening again next time. And so a lot of people are afraid to share their vulnerabilities

or their mistakes because they're afraid that it's going to give permission for everybody

to just go around and lower their standards. No, actually, it's opposite's going to happen. It shows that you can

keep those high standards. However, at the same time, have a safe enough environment where you could

admit your mistakes, learn the lessons so that they can learn from your mistakes and get better and produce at a higher level moving forward.

And so this just combines with the principle.

Don't just learn from your own mistakes.

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