Failure is not Final
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Failure is a natural part of life, but we can learn how to make the most out of those inevitable failures. In this episode, John Maxwell asks why some people allow failure to build them up and others allow it to derail them. John offers four observations about how people view failure, as well as four alternatives that will allow us to maximize our misses.
Mark Cole shares how learning from failure has made him the man he is today, and provided the experience needed to lead at a higher level. Richard follows up with a reminder that we need to be intentional in thinking about failure, not only in the past, but also, in the future. Mark and Richard challenge us not to shy away from an opportunity because it has low odds. We may fail, but we can learn from that failure and turn it into tomorrow’s success.
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References:
The Quick-Start Guide to Failing Forward Audio Series
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast. I'm Richard Chansey. One of your hosts |
| 0:10.1 | today's episode is called Failure is Not Final. We've taken this lesson for |
| 0:15.7 | when a John Maxwell's brand new audio series called The Quick Start Guide to |
| 0:19.6 | Failing Forward. This is an incredible audio series and it's just $29. For the |
| 0:25.8 | link to that audio series and the episode show notes, just visit MaxwellPodcast.com |
| 0:30.8 | Ford slash final. That's MaxwellPodcast.com Ford slash final. We hope you |
| 0:37.2 | enjoy. Now here's Dr. John C. Maxwell. |
| 0:47.0 | There's only a slight difference between an unsuccessful person and the |
| 0:52.1 | successful one when handling failure. The difference, unsuccessful people fail |
| 0:57.0 | about three out of five times. Successful people fail two out of five times. |
| 1:04.2 | There's not a lot of difference between the person who really is going to make it |
| 1:09.5 | and the person who doesn't. And I want us to see that today. In fact, there are |
| 1:13.4 | some similarities between the person who fails three out of five and the |
| 1:17.5 | person fails two out of five. Even though although one would be classified |
| 1:20.2 | successful, the other would be classified unsuccessful. The similarities are |
| 1:23.9 | obviously one all fail. There's not a person here today that does not experience |
| 1:29.5 | failure almost on a daily basis. The second thing is that we all fail often. It's |
| 1:36.9 | not that we just failed once in our life and we're trying to walk through life |
| 1:40.0 | kind of in a ginger tentative fashion and never do it again but we're going to |
| 1:44.7 | fail almost every day of our life. And thirdly, we will all fail till we all die. |
| 1:51.8 | It comes down to the very fact that death itself is the only thing that's going |
| 1:55.8 | to keep us from failing. We have to understand that because sometimes I have a |
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