Learning from mistakes
managerFailure is not an option it’s a necessity. Here some thoughts on failures
General
COEs
Failures are a great opportunity to learn. Use COEs
Good sayings
- Success is falling down 7 times and getting up 8
- Failure isn’t an option it’s a requirement
- The default, doing nothing, is usually a failure
- Fear is the mind killer
- Fear of failure is brought to you by the resistance
- Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
Smart people talking about fear of failure
James Web Telescope guy
Elon on launching man to space
Elon on engineering responsibility
My $500M mars rover mistake
Great story on the empathy that failure can bring
Seth Godin on Fear
Alas, this is the wrong question.
The only way to get rid of the fear is to stop doing things that might not work, to stop putting yourself out there, to stop doing work that matters.
No, the right question is, “How do I dance with the fear?”
Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
Read his other posts as well