Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,960. Today we're

talking about failing and Amy Edmondson out of Harvard Business School. She says that not all failures

are created equal. There are three types of failures she describes. Preventable failures,

uncontrollable failures, and effective failures.

So the preventable failures are a byproduct of a lack of effort,

not adequately preparing their mental mistakes,

not adhering to the established process or plan,

mistakes that stem from a lack of caring.

These are preventable failures.

The next part is our uncontrollable failures.

Failing because of unforeseen or unpredictable factors that you couldn't prepare for,

nor could you control even if you wanted to.

Poor officiating, injury, coaches, bosses,

decisions, equipment malfunctions, and so forth. And then the last set of failures are the effective failures. This is when you give your absolute best and you still come up short.

Failing while performing at the outer edges of your ability,

unsuccessfully accomplishing something outside of your comfort zone, even though you prepared

the best you could and you gave the best you could. It's experimenting, taking calculated risks,

taking a shot at going after your dreams, even though the odds are against you.

Putting yourself out there for that job to make the team, the position, the school, and getting declined.

These are all painful and we can learn lessons from each one, but it's the failures we experience when we are pushing the limits that help us maximize our potential.

We want to stay away from the preventable failures, the failures that are the byproduct of

effort, attitude, attention, and detail that stem from a lack of caring.

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