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THE ED MYLETT SHOW

John Maxwell: Getting a Return on Your Failures

THE ED MYLETT SHOW

Ed Mylett

Self-improvement, Education, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.914.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Click the link below to come see me speak live and use promo code "ED30" for 30% off! ⁠https://lifesurge.com What if the very thing you’ve been avoiding your entire life… is actually the key to unlocking your greatest success? In this conversation with John Maxwell, we go deep on something every single one of you deals with, but almost nobody has mastered… failure. And I’ve got to tell you, this one hit me personally. John has been a mentor, a friend, and someone I look up to in a way that’s hard to even put into words. So when we sat down to talk about his new work on failure, I knew this wasn’t going to be surface-level. This is the real stuff that defines your life. John breaks down why most people never even get in the game. It’s not a lack of talent. It’s not a lack of opportunity. It’s that they haven’t gotten over themselves. That fear of looking bad, of being judged, of failing publicly… it keeps people stuck in the bleachers. And one of the most powerful distinctions we talk about is this idea of a “good miss” versus a “bad miss.” Because failure itself isn’t what defines you… your response to it is. That alone could change your entire life if you really take it in. We also unpack something I’ve never heard explained this way before. Success and failure are meant to be together. You separate them, and you lose. When you’re winning, failure keeps you humble. When you’re struggling, success gives you resilience. That balance is where growth actually happens. And John shares how reframing failure from a liability into an asset completely transformed not just his career, but his entire perspective on life. This episode is also about leadership. About how you lead your family, your team, and yourself through setbacks. John made it clear that when successful people talk about their failures, it gives everyone else permission to keep going. It encourages people. It lifts them. And I had to check myself in this conversation too… because the truth is, when we only show our wins, we might actually be discouraging the very people we’re trying to help. If you’ve been holding back, playing it safe, or letting the fear of failure control your decisions… this is the episode you need right now. This isn’t just about failure. It’s about freedom. Key Takeaways: Why fear of failure is really about ego and how to break free from it The difference between a “good miss” and a “bad miss” and why your response matters most How keeping success and failure together builds both humility and resilience Why failure should move you, not define you or make you comfortable How great leaders use their failures to inspire and develop others The mindset shift that turns failure from a liability into your greatest asset 👉 SUBSCRIBE TO ED'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL NOW 👈⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   → → → CONNECT WITH ED MYLETT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ← ← ←  ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠INSTAGRAM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ➡️⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FACEBOOK⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LINKEDIN⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  ➡️ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠WEBSITE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My. Go to gum.fm slash mylet to fill out our audience survey. That's g-um.fm-fm-slash mylet, M-Y-L-E-T-T.

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So hey, guys, I'm calling on all my friends here in the audience for a little bit of help.

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We're conducting an audience survey at gum.fm-slash-M-L my let and we want to hear from you so we can make

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things here even a better experience for you and create content that you want you know we all know

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this there's ads on our show right so we want to improve the experience but in order to do that we

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need to know a little bit more about you so my friends in the audience we want to improve that

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experience so please help us.

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The survey's quick, easy, and it's a free way to support the show.

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If you'll take two minutes, you'll be helping us out so much by doing this.

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So go to gum.fm slash mylet to fill out our audience survey.

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That's g-um.fm-fm-M-Y-L-L-E-T-T. Okay. um dot fm slash my let m yel ttt this is the edin myland show welcome back to the show everybody so today is

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obviously my favorite day of the year about once a year i get a chance to have this man on our

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show and hopefully that'll happen more and more in 2026 but let me just Obviously, my favorite day of the year, about once a year I get a chance to have this man on our show,

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and hopefully that'll happen more and more in 2026. But let me just tell you about this man.

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Number one, you all know his accolades. He's the premier leadership expert in the world the last 50 years of my life.

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That means I'm old. Number one, well, it means I'm old, 50 years. But he sold, I don't know, what do you sold? 35 million books. He's written a hundred different books. And that's not what I love about him, even though he's the best in the world at what he does. I'll just tell you all personally that, you know, since my father's passed away, which was about four or five years ago, this man sort of fulfills that role for me in my life of the man that I look up to the most.

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And he's my hero. He's the person that I'll never ever live up to the shoes that he's walked in, but they're the ones I would love to try to fill in my life.

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I admire him tremendously. He's as good a human being as I've ever met in my life.

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And so today we're going to talk about his new book, which I specialize in this thing called

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