Fail Better: Using Mistakes to Improve Performance

Fail Better: Using Mistakes to Improve Performance

57mBeginner2023-07-03

Authors

Doug Rose

Doug Rose

Teaching Fortune 500s and professionals how to lead change

Course details

Almost every great success is paved with dozens or even hundreds of smaller failures. This course focuses on getting the greatest benefit from these failures. The more you learn from these failures the easier it'll be to find success. You'll start by seeing that there are generally two kinds of failures, and you need to change your strategy depending on how you fail. Plus, you'll see that people are inclined to ignore or hide their failures. That means that you'll need strategies to ignore your instincts and better discover why you failed. Whether you're a long-time manager or just starting out in your career, the better you understand failures, the more likely they’ll lead to success.

Skills covered

Personal DevelopmentProfessional DevelopmentOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Welcome

Failure Types

  • Failing
  • Linear failure
  • Nonlinear failure
  • Comparing the two types
  • Closed loop systems

Failure Features

  • Infallibility
  • Local rationality
  • Failure time
  • Feedback deafness

Failure Coverups

  • Expert opinions
  • Trusting memory
  • The narrative fallacy

Failure Benefits

  • Assigning blame
  • The growth mindset
  • The power of perseverance

Hidden Failures

  • Failure dressed as success
  • An iterative approach
  • The power of counterfactuals

Conclusion

  • Next steps
40,000 Toman