BRX Pro Tip: How to Respond to Failure
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I’ve got some ideas and I often think about how I’m going to respond to success. But maybe a more practical strategy to have in place or plan to have in place is, how to respond to failure.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:18] Failure is real and it happens and it should happen. Because if you’re not failing, then you’re not trying hard enough and you’re not trying new things. I think the most important thing when it comes to the word failure is to reframe failing to learning. You never fail until you quit. Quitting, to me, is failing. Pivoting is not failing. Learning is not failing. Those are things you’re trying something and then you learn something, and you learn something doesn’t work. And now you can take that learning with you and then you move forward and you try something else, taking what you just learned with you onto this next kind of iteration.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:00] And learning compounds over time. The more you’re trying things and learning what doesn’t work, that means you’re going to get to what works sooner. So, just keep learning, keep trying. And when you learn something new, you become something new. And when you learn something new and then you share what you’ve learned with others, you will have a larger impact. So, to me, there is really no such thing as failing until you quit and then you have failed. But if you’re failing and you’re learning and you’re moving forward, then you’re winning.
