Is Failure a Bad Thing?
Juliet Clark
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Juliet Clark
Platform Building with Integrity for Non-Fiction Authors, Coaches, and Speakers.
Not always! Serial entrepreneur Sam Eaton’s new book The Trouble With Pink Wheelbarrows is a dep- dive into entrepreneurship. While the book is inspirational, it also highlights the not-so-pretty-side of owning a business that entrepreneurs don’t talk about.
Sam’s first business was selling pink wheelbarrows. She thought they would be a popular item with gardeners. As part of her business strategy, she even offered to wrap them as gifts. Have you ever tried to wrap a wheelbarrow?
Click here to hear Sam describe her adventures.
Transformative and engaging speaker and business coach; author of the acclaimed book, "Twist the Familiar"; Connect Meetings "Top 15 over 50" Award; Smart Meetings “Best of the Stage, Industry Expert" Speaker Award.
1 年I find that the answer is "it depends"... If you'll go to my profile here on LI, I wrote an article that went virile a couple years ago about using failure as an attribute for learning and when interviewing -- yes, interviewing! Why is my answer "it depends"? If you let failures and setbacks take you over and debilitate you -- and you don't learn from them -- then, yes, failure is a bad thing. But if it forces you to change something up, do something differently, come back up off the canvas and learn from it as a lesson so as to do better next time, then you're actually using failure as a catapult -- and not a millstone.