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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Fail Your Face Off! | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Are you willing to fail your face off? During our lives, we all make mistakes and have so-called “failures.” But what if they’re not failures at all? What if it’s all just feedback you’re getting on your journey to success? When you fail… Not getting the job, not getting the listing or not getting the date… How do you react? On today’s Mindset Monday episode, I share how to re-frame failure and see it as an opportunity to help you grow. So change your mindset towards failure and you’ll see how when that next opportunity comes your way, you can show up better and be extraordinary!

Transcript

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0:00.0

So how do you react when you screw up? How do you act when you fail? When you make a mistake

0:06.8

when things don't go your way. You didn't get the appointment, you didn't get the

0:09.5

date, you got the no, right? You didn't get the yes. Like, how do you react in that moment?

0:14.3

How do you feel about yourself in that moment?

0:18.6

I would argue that the vast majority of people won't even make the phone call.

0:21.3

They won't even ask the person for a date. They won't even make the phone call. They won't even ask the person for a

0:22.7

date. They won't even go for it because they're so caught up in this failure

0:27.2

loop that I'm going to feel about. Like I talked about in my second book, right? Every

0:31.6

action is six moves from death and dying the reason why

0:35.1

it isn't for me in the early days of my life I was very fortunate to be introduced

0:38.9

to what someone called the science of neurolinguistic programming NLP and inside of NLP there's basically 16

0:47.4

presuppositions like so if you were gonna be a therapist as an example or a coach

0:51.4

There's 16 things we need to presuppose about human beings and

0:54.7

number three and I want to read it exactly is there is no such thing as

0:58.6

failure only feedback exists. There's no such thing as failure, only feedback exists.

1:07.0

Think about it.

1:08.0

Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

1:10.0

What he got was 9,999 pieces of feedback to tell him how to not create a light bulb.

1:19.0

I would ask you to consider, you need to start associating failure as feedback, mistakes as opportunities for growth.

1:28.2

How do you become wise?

1:30.4

Where does wisdom come from?

1:32.2

It comes from experience.

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