The willingness to sit with failure long enough to actually learn from it is one of the hardest things to develop, and one of the most predictive behaviors in the data. Most people move on too fast, or spend the energy on blame rather than reflection, and end up carrying the same blind spot into the next situation.
The question "what assumptions led me here?" is, I think, the right one. Most failures aren't random, they're the logical outcome of something the leader believed that turned out to be wrong. Finding that belief is where the real learning lives.
Resilience isn't about bouncing back quickly. It's about bouncing forward smarter.
One of the reminders I've been sitting with lately is, "what got us to where we are won't get us to where we want to go." I'm realizing that many failures result from doing the same thing we've always done and expecting a different result, rather than learning from that and making the continous adjustments.
The willingness to sit with failure long enough to actually learn from it is one of the hardest things to develop, and one of the most predictive behaviors in the data. Most people move on too fast, or spend the energy on blame rather than reflection, and end up carrying the same blind spot into the next situation.
The question "what assumptions led me here?" is, I think, the right one. Most failures aren't random, they're the logical outcome of something the leader believed that turned out to be wrong. Finding that belief is where the real learning lives.
Resilience isn't about bouncing back quickly. It's about bouncing forward smarter.
I love that question: “what assumptions led me here” I’m going to remember to think deeply about that.
One of the reminders I've been sitting with lately is, "what got us to where we are won't get us to where we want to go." I'm realizing that many failures result from doing the same thing we've always done and expecting a different result, rather than learning from that and making the continous adjustments.
I like that. Failing and then using the same approach the next time is a bit of a silly move.