Let’s Talk About the Other F Word

In our society FAIL is a four-letter word.

Yet, when I gave my CU Commencement Speech, Dare to Fail, I was blown away by the conversation it started. So many people reached out with stories of their own failures and the powerful things they learned. Failure is in the air.

I want to pour some gas on the fire. I’ve been approached by a couple of publishers to write a book about Daring to Fail and what you can learn from it.

Have you failed? I certainly have. Over and over again.

What better way to start the journey than to use the wisdom of the crowd. People’s stories are so powerful. To start the conversation, leave a comment here, write a blog post, tweet it or make a video and send me the link, answering these questions.

1. Tell a story about a failure.
2.  What did you learn?
3.  How did it help you?
4. How has it helped you to help others?

Let’s make this a big, cultural conversation. One that a book can emerge from that can inspire all of us to stop being afraid of failure and to share it and learn from it.

Thanks for participating.

 

Comments

[Darry Logan]

Well, I've failed several times in business and don't care much for it. To me the experience of a painful failure only made me more cautious and a lot more afraid of failure. I will give you my first business failure since it drastically changed my life. A young partner and I started an extreme sport tour company. We were into skydiving video, snowboarding tours, rafting and anything extreme. We called our company Xtreme Xscape....oh soo cool. We were starting to attract some very wealthy angels. My big goals for a full on extreme tour company were in my grasp. Long short, I was injured really bad in a snowboard accident, spent a month in the hospital, scared all possible investment away, and the next 6 years picking up the pieces of three other failed businesses. For the last four years I have been in sales and have made a really good living. I'm the number one sales rep out of a team of 70 people. I have pulled myself and my family out of a very deep hole and am proud of it. However the entrepreneurial bug is bitting me all the time. I have been planning a business project for the past three years to once again break out on my own. However, I think the three business failures have made me too patient. I need to know what I can do to pull the trigger without loosing the farm again. I am searching for advice and not really offering much in return. I hope you can help.

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