Reframing Failure as Feedback

About This Talk

Chris asks listeners to treat successes and failures the same way: as equal chances to learn. He notes that people tend to skip past both, savoring a win without studying it and avoiding a loss because they don’t want to relive it. The talk invites each listener to look closely at both and ask how each one happened.

Key Ideas

• Treat successes and failures as equal learning opportunities that both deserve your attention.
• We often skip past a success while savoring the win, and skip past a failure because we don’t want to relive it.
• Ask how you succeeded and how you failed, and in the end there are no successes or failures, only learning opportunities.

“If we could treat our successes and failures as equal learning opportunities, we’d have an entirely different view on how we learn about life.”