
How To Turn
Failures into Opportunities
The Three Steps |
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Get rid of all negative emotions – and
→learn: There is no
failure, only
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feedback!
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Go into a fresh-start mindset
– more intelligently: Given the situation you are in
now as a starting point, consider various options: what
opportunities for and a roadmap to ultimate success can you see
or imagine?
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Take different views of the situation
– and
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look for opportunities:
Having looked at the scene from your view,
look at it from different
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perspectives, try each of these
views:
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Turning Failures Into
Opportunities
To profit from experience you must be open and
willing to learn, even from what some people might consider a failure.
Failure
is not
something to
be afraid of
or to grieve
about.
Failure is
something to
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prevent
or to
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benefit
from.
Don't have have a narrow and negative understanding of the meaning
of failure. If you tend to hide from failures, you will never create
breakthroughs and block
valuable
learning
forward.
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Noble
Failure
What may seem to be a failure can actually
lead to new opportunities, especially if the knowledge acquired from the
failed
projects can be
exploited.
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Right learning questions
can serve as a starting point for the assimilation of learning.
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6 Mindsets
of a
Great Achiever
Changing your
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attitude is the key to finding
success in seeming failure. "Optimistic
thinking has sometimes gotten a bad rap as being unrealistic, but
research has found that we can indeed live
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happier,
healthier, and
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more successful lives if we can learn to
discover opportunities in problems," says Charles C. Manz.2 These problems then become
merely challenging
opportunities that we can turn to our advantage.
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Be a
Victor
 |
I have not failed
700 times. When I have eliminated
the ways that will not work, I will
find the way that will work. |
Thomas
Edison |
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