FAILING BACKWARD VERSUS FAILING FORWARD
1 min readNov 18, 2022
MAINTAIN A TEACHABLE ATTITUDE IN EVERYTHING YOU DO TODAY
Look at the way any achiever approaches negative experiences, and you can learn a lot about how to fail forward. Read through these two lists, and determine which one describes your approach to failure:
Failing Backward Failing Forward
- Blaming Others
- Taking Responsibility
- Repeating the Same Mistakes
- Learning from Each Mistake
- Expecting Never to Fail Again
- Knowing Failure Is a Part of Progress
- Expecting to Continually Fail
- Maintaining a Positive Attitude
- Accepting Tradition Blindly
- Challenging Outdated Assumptions
- Being Limited by Past Mistakes
- Taking New Risks
- Thinking, I am a Failure
- Believing Something Didn’t Work
- Quitting
- Persevering
Think about a recent setback you experienced. How did you respond? No matter how difficult your problems were, the key to overcoming them doesn’t lie in changing your circumstances. It’s in changing yourself. That in itself is a process, and it begins with a desire to be teachable. If you’re willing to do that, then you’ll be able to handle failure. From this moment on, make a commitment to do whatever it takes to fail forward.
