There's a lot of pressureto to get things right, and i feel like that stifles this yes and approach. We often have a tendency to judge our ideas at the same we're creating them,. There's a time to judge, but that's not the time when you're creating ideas. You can judge ideas later. And even if we hend up some place that isn't super valuable for us, we may find that there are aspects of that idea that are still valuable.
“The less time you can spend dwelling on your mistakes, the more mental energy you can devote to doing what you need to do in that moment.” On this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, Christian Wheeler, the StrataComm Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing at Stanford Graduate School Business, sits down with podcast host and lecturer Matt Abrahams to talk about embracing failure and managing your team in-the-moment.
“When we’re confronted with personal failure, it feels bad to us. And we work hard to try to avoid that failure, and that can often be counterproductive,” Wheeler says. “But failing is something that’s on the pathway to success.”
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