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Embracing Failure: The Key To Business Growth

Episode XXX
March 08, 2023

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Hosted By

Dan Sullivan, Co-Founder of Strategic Coach® Dan Sullivan
Shannon Waller Shannon Waller

Do you take your failures personally? In this episode, Shannon Waller and Dan Sullivan discuss the ultimate entrepreneurial challenge—turning setbacks into stepping stones. Learn how to embrace failure and acknowledge the valuable lessons it teaches for maximum business growth.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

  • You're either winning or you're learning. Failure, learning, and improvement are all interconnected, and we need to embrace failure to move forward and experiment in new territories.
  • The impact of a culture that avoids discomfort and failure, and how it creates fragility and limits growth.
  • By transforming failures, we can become more capable in the future.

Show Notes:

  • Entrepreneurs and the military are the fastest learning groups of people in the world, but there's just as much failure as there is success.
  • The emotional response to failure needs to be transformed into learning that will set us up for a more successful future.
  • If you're not failing, you're not going into new territory, experimenting, testing, or trying stuff out, which means you're not moving forward.
  • Transforming failure is a choice.
  • The desire to be protected from failure and uncomfortable situations leads to fragility and restricts our future capabilities.

Resources:

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