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In the Loop with Andy Andrews

ITL224: How to Use Your Failure as a Stepping Stone to Success

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

Business

4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question on why we push people to succeed when failing is what leads to learning.

 

Success is your destination, but we should also create value from every part of the journey.

  • My smart-aleck answer is that you push people to succeed because you don’t want to push them to fail.
  • What we want to do is reach a destination defined by a successful conclusion to something.

 

However, there is value in getting lost along the way.

  • There is no weaker leader than someone who has only succeeded in certain things and has gotten to where they are relatively easily.
  • A strong version of leadership enables a person to say, “I know how you feel because this happened to me, and this is what came about because of that.”
  • The ultimate goal isn’t to focus on the failure but to make sense of it and gain proper perspective.

 

Most people travel through their lives along the path of least resistance.

  • There is a push for success that can make people fearful of any kind of failure.
  • A balanced approach is to let people know that anything worth doing is worth struggling to get better at.
  • In our culture, to struggle at something reveals weakness when it should be seen as honorable.

 

Tune in to learn the difference between how our culture and some Asian cultures approach struggle while learning in the classroom, and how struggle can really open up more paths in life.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective

0:06.5

with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews.

0:10.3

Now here's your host, David Loy.

0:13.3

Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews.

0:16.4

I'm your host, David Loy, Andy.

0:17.8

I am so excited about this, and I'll tell you why in just a second.

0:21.5

Are you there? I should make sure. I am here. You are excited. I am too. Don't tell me why in just a

0:27.4

second. Tell me why right now. I'm telling you why right now, and you will be excited about this, too.

0:32.9

But I am sitting in, let's just call it, it's kind of like a cave. I'm in Franklin, our management

0:40.8

office here in Franklin, Tennessee. You're in your office down in Orange Beach, Alabama.

0:45.0

Aren't you where we always do this? I am, except since the last time you were here.

0:49.6

You've added rocks? It's a cave? Matt, our producer and our audio engineer, who does everything behind

0:57.5

the scenes for this podcast. Thank you to Matt Lembert. Matt, thank you very much. He has created

1:03.2

a soundproof, it's like a little studio within our studio. You know, we've got our video room where we've shot some

1:11.9

of the video courses that you've done before, where we've done some video blogs. And then

1:16.8

within that room, he's made, he's got all these huge soundproof panels and, you know, deadening

1:24.4

foam. And so I'm like sitting in a little box right now.

1:30.0

And when you're up here next time,

1:31.4

we're going to record more podcast and you'll get to be in the box with me.

1:35.9

But this is really cool.

1:37.4

It feels very professional.

1:38.1

So even though this is in the loop and we do things out of the box we'll still be in the box is what you're saying

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