Failure Resume - Five Concrete Things to Do

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The failure resume is an idea from tina selig, a professor of practice at stamford university. She says you should make a list of all your screw ups and setbacks and mistakes. In doing that, i looked it over, saying, what's a lesson that i learned from each of these things? And i realized that i had been making the same mistake over and overThat act was clarifying to melike, all my gosh, not learning anything from my mistakes.

How often have you heard someone say they want to live their life with no regrets?

Our society often teaches us that a successful life is one lived without regrets. But in his new book The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward, best-selling author Dan Pink offers a different perspective. Regret, he suggests, is a valuable raw material that allows us to learn from our mistakes and make the imperfect more perfect.

In this week's episode, Dan shares five counterintuitive ways you can use regret to your advantage and design a life that really matters.

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