Why You Need to Fail in Your Career, with Dan Cumberland

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

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Careers, Business

4.8 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Are you afraid of failure in your career or workplace? Failure certainly gets a bad rap in today’s job market. The truth is taking risks and facing failure head on allows you to be your best self at work. Find Your Dream Job guest Dan Cumberland says that fear of failure can cause you to hold back and not share your best ideas with your employer, but taking risks can help you to advance in your career and reach your goals. Dan also shares how to talk to hiring managers about your past failures and why you must fail in order to succeed. About Our Guest: Dan Cumberland (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dancumberland/) is the host of The Meaning Movement podcast (http://themeaningmovement.com/), where he curates advice on finding your passion, calling, and life's work. Dan is on a mission to support people in finding and doing their best work in any way that he can. Resources in This Episode: If you need help figuring out the next steps in your life and career, get Dan’s free mini-course, “Five Clues to Your Calling,” by visiting https://thecallingcourse.com/ To hear more from Dan and his fascinating guests, be sure to listen to his podcast, http://themeaningmovement.com. Would you like to listen to more podcasts like this one? If so, I have good news for you: there are dozens of great career podcasts out there. But, they can be hard to find if you don’t already know about them. That’s why I created a guide to the “Top Career Podcasts.” Download your free copy today by visiting http://www.topcareerpodcasts.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.8	This is Find Your Dream Job, the podcast that helps you get hired, have the career you want,
1:17.8	and make a difference in life. I'm your host, Mack Pritchard. I'm also the founder of Max List.
1:23.4	It's a job board in the Pacific Northwest that helps you find a fulfilling career.
1:33.1	Every Wednesday, I talk to a different expert about the tools you need to find the work you want.
1:38.5	Have you ever seen a coworker get fired and then go on to get hired for a great job?
1:45.9	Our guest today says the secret to success in the workplace isn't a well-placed in-law. Instead, you need to take risks and accept the failure that might follow. Here to talk about why you need to fail in your
1:50.9	own career is Dan Cumberland. He's the host of the Meaning Movement podcast. He also writes a blog
1:57.4	about how to find your passion, calling, and life's work. Dan joins us today from
2:02.5	Seattle, Washington. Well, Dan, let's get right into it. You say that in order to succeed,
2:07.8	you got to fail. But aren't the best people, or rather the people with the best careers,
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