Behavioral economist David Frum: Why do we take it so personally when we screw up? We'd like to be able to say okay. Well, you know I failed but hey I one step closer to the next success. But why is it that every time we get negative feedback on almost any little happy little thing that happens during the day I feel higher or lower in my self-worth column? He says many of our decision biases have to do with this Incredible need to preserve our sense of self-worth and where does that come from?
Want to be successful? You might need to get better at failing.
In this episode, Charles Lee (Stanford) and Andy Van Schaack (Vanderbilt) explore what it takes to be failure-resilient. In this Forum from October 2022 at Vanderbilt, they discuss success, failure, and how we might find a resilient self-worth.