Making the Most of Our Mistakes

Maxwell Leadership Podcast

John Maxwell

Business, Leadership, Education, Johnmaxwell

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today, we’re going to talk about all your mistakes! Just kidding! We’re actually going to talk about how to make the most of your mistakes! John, as well as any successful leader, will tell you that if you’re going to be successful, you need to stop fearing failure. Sometimes mistakes teach us our greatest lessons. That’s why we need to start thinking of our mistakes as assets, not liabilities.

After John teaches how to make the most of our mistakes, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow join to discuss times when they’ve made the most of their mistakes and how to apply the principles from John’s lesson into your own life and leadership.

Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Making the Most of Our Mistakes Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Mistake and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”

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0:00.0	MUSIC
0:14.0	Welcome to the John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, the podcast that adds value to
0:20.0	leaders who multiply value to others. My name is Mark Cole and today we're
0:26.0	going to talk about all your mistakes. Okay, here's John. No, I'm just kidding.
0:33.0	Today we're going to talk about how to make the most of your mistakes. John, as
0:39.0	well as any successful leader, will tell you that if you're going to be successful,
0:44.0	you need to stop fearing failure. In fact, it was Ariana Huffington that says
0:50.0	failure is not the opposite of success. It's part of success. Sometimes mistakes
0:58.0	teach us our greatest lessons. That's why we need to start thinking of our mistakes
1:03.0	not as liabilities, but as asset. After John's lesson, I am my co-host Tracy
1:10.0	Moral. We'll be back to discuss John's lesson and offer some application on how
1:16.0	you can apply this lesson to your leadership. Every episode we offer a free
1:22.0	fill-in-the-blank worksheet that we call the bonus resource. If you would
1:27.0	like to download that PDF, go to MaxwellPodcast.com forward slash mistake.
1:34.0	Click the bonus resource button and you will be able to follow along. Now, here
1:40.0	is Dr. John C. Maxwell. How do we make the most out of our mistakes?
1:51.0	Number one, stop fearing mistakes. Hubbard was right when he said the greatest
1:59.0	mistake one can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
2:03.0	So let's work with that right now. Look at your day right now and tell them
2:07.0	that they are going to make mistakes. Go ahead and tell them that. You are going to make a mistake.
2:12.0	Feels good, doesn't it? Feels good. Huh? I love it. Listen to it.
2:20.0	See, you didn't just tell your neighbor that they are going to make a mistake.
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