This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey kids failure really does get a bad rap but if you're not failing regularly you're probably not

taking enough risks or running enough experiments in your life. Today we're going to

talk to a researcher who has dedicated much of her career to studying how to fail well or how to get good at which she calls

intelligent failure. Amy C Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business

School.

Our latest book is called The Right Kind of Wrong.

We talked about the major problems of shame, perfectionism, and social media, how not to get caught up in analysis paralysis,

the importance of self-compassion, and also of having a growth mindset, the benefits of

worrying with somebody else instead of on your own.

Why redundancy is your friend, how to discuss failure with your team without blaming people,

the crucial role of psychological safety, which is a key aspect of Professor

Edmondson's work and it's something that I work on pretty hard in my own life with

varying degrees of success and why accepting your smallness in the face of the infinite universe can be very

freeing when it comes to failure.

This is the second episode in our sanely ambitious series a popular franchise here on the show

Monday we talked to Daniel Goldman about the science of optimal performance next

week we're talking about how to boost your attention span and the science of when to quit.

To quit a job or project or even a relationship.

Anyway, today it's Amy Edmondson and it's coming right up.

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