BRX Pro Tip: Failure is Part of Growing
Stone Payton: And we’re back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor, Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I actually enjoy talking about success a great deal. But we probably owe it to ourselves and to our community. We ought to address this topic of failure a little bit as well.
Lee Kantor: Yeah. There’s a saying in stoicism, well, maybe not. Maybe it’s Buddhism. It’s called no mud, no lotus. And failure is not the opposite of success. It is just the tuition you pay for success. Every misstep you make buys you insight, clarity, and resilience that no book or mentor can give to you.
Lee Kantor: So, the goal really isn’t to avoid failure. You kind of accept that failure is just part of the deal, but you want to be able to take that failure and learn from it and move forward faster for next time.
Lee Kantor: So, number one, failure speeds up your learning. You have to reframe failure to learning because it will speed up your learning. Each failure is part of a feedback loop, and the faster you experiment, the faster you evolve.
Lee Kantor: Smart entrepreneurs aren’t fearing mistakes. They look at them as a way to iterate their way to mastery so that the next step is going to work better, and they’re going to eventually get the outcome they desire.
Lee Kantor: Number two, failure sharpens your resilience. You know, after a while, that pain goes away, but the scar tissue stays. And that’s what makes your future problems easier to solve down the road. And the people who can bounce back quickly and move ahead, while others are kind of feeling sorry for themselves, they’re going to be the winners here.
Lee Kantor: So, don’t treat failure like it’s a final verdict. It’s just information. And the sooner you can strip away some of that fear and shame from failure, the sooner you’re going to be able to grow. And that’s going to just become inevitable because you’re going to be on the path to growth, learning from these failures every step of the way.
