Tag: failure
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Experience and Wisdom Are NOT Synonyms
We place enormous faith in experience. We promote people who have it, defer to organizations that have accumulated it, and assume that time spent doing something naturally produces wisdom. It’s one of our deepest beliefs about how learning works. It’s also, quietly, one of our more dangerous assumptions. Experience alone doesn’t always teach. Interpretation does.…
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The Weight of Losing Before Winning: John Elway Lessons
I’ve been reading & watching biographies; one recently was “Elway” on Netflix. My takeaway was this: For years, John Elway’s public identity was shaped by what he hadn’t yet done — more than what he could do. Three Super Bowl losses hung over his career like a verdict. In a culture that treats championships as…
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So What — You Made a Mistake. Now What?
So what — you made a mistake. Not the end of the world. Not the end of your story. Not even the end of the chapter you’re in. Somewhere along the way, many of us absorbed the false belief that mistakes define us. That one misstep reveals something irrefutable about our character. That getting something…
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Why Trying to Please Everyone Leads to Failure
While I won’t say I hold the keys to success for all, I do know that the key to failure — in personal and professional situations — often lies in trying to please everyone. While seemingly well-intentioned, this approach inevitably leads to compromising on core values, diluted objectives, and conflicting priorities. Never a good mix…