How does your company treat failure? Put another way, how safe do your employees feel to admit they got something wrong? “We celebrate our failures,” former Google CEO Eric Schmidt once said. Google ...

Failure is inevitable as an entrepreneur, so it’s important to develop a healthy attitude about it. Here are four lessons you ...

Young people experienced milestones from high school graduation to college firsts in a mode of permanent crisis with daily social media reminders that others may be more successful or having more fun ...

Failure is an inevitable, healthy, and normal part of life—and a great way to “practice” failure is though youth sport. Being able to embrace failure and grow from it are skills, and testing those ...

Imagine you are watching a movie, a delightfully engaging and entertaining film. Now imagine that the person sitting next to you is an acclaimed director, an expert at making movies. Will you see the ...

In our experience, one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in many ways like fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while ...

It’s important for all entrepreneurs to learn how to accept failure — it happens to everyone. Here’s how you can use it to promote success. Introducing “pre-mortems” in startups can create awareness ...

Contrary to the widespread belief that people learn from their mistakes, new science suggests that failure is not always the best teacher. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Clark ...

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We all want to be evaluated based on our own merits. But sometimes, this is not the case. Many of us have found ourselves in situations where expectations were high, but the support, resources, or ...

Watching the tower fall can be hard, but it can also be part of the fun! Source: Krakenimages / Shutterstock Nobody likes to fail; it doesn’t feel good. Trying something and not succeeding may trigger ...

Let’s start with a fun exercise: Go here, and play this little game, originally designed to discuss government policy making. How did you get on? Statistically, many of you will have failed, as ...