Episode description
Most large organisations fail before they succeed, and the small failures are early warning signs that change is needed. All of our research is showing that to succeed in business as entrepreneurs and leaders in industry we must redefine failure. We need to get better at failing. We need to understand it, learn from it and share what we have learnt. This podcast summarises our research into failure and the link with Psychological Safety, Resilience, Wellbeing, Impostor Syndrome and Belief.
The episode also looks at the neuroscience behind the importance of errors and failure, and the importance of errors to prime the central nervous system to learn, and how frustration plays such an important part in creating our awareness that something needs to change. It will examine from a psychology perspective, why don’t we learn failure and why we actively try to avoid it.
Finally we share some tips to recommend how we can overcome our reluctance to face up to failure so that we embed the motivation to keep trying and learn from our mistakes.
In this episode, Amanda is being interviewed by Tim Hepworth.
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Timestamps
Destigmatize Failure to Succeed
- 00:00 – Introduction to Destigmatizing Failure
- 00:24 – Fail to succeed?
- 01:10 – 90% of Startups fail
History teaches us this
- 02:18 – Henry Ford’s failures (though in his words “History is more or less bunk!”)
- 03:54 – Trial and error is good, but we have to face up to it
- 04:18 – Progressive
- 05:11 – An opportunity to learn
- 06:46 – IBM it
Personal experience with Failure
- 07:19 – Personal failures?
- 08:36 – Unconsciously incompetent
- 09:34 – Success from learning from this failure
- 10:54 – “Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes” – Oscar Wilde
- 11:15 – What did you learn from this experience?
The science of Failure
- 12:42 – Neuroscience!
- 13:24 – Errors shape our neuroplasticity
- 14:00 – What happens when we make errors?
- 15:35 – Dopamine is subjective
- 16:04 – Rather Pavlovian…
- 17:15 – Psychological Danger
Getting into the right frame of mind
- 18:44 – How to create an environment of Psychological Safety
- 20:27 – How does Resilience stop you from learning?
- 20:39 – Tunnel vision, negative thoughts, loss of perception of time & mitigated language
- 22:02 – Negative thought patterns
- 22:33 – Positive thought patterns
- 22:42 – Loss of the Perception of Time
- 24:46 – Mitigated Language
- 25:39 – Accommodating authority
Why can’t I learn from failure?
- 26:23 – Why
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