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title: Failing | The Brooks Review
date: 2016-08-24 20:00:00 -05:00
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- culture
- work
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link_url: http://brooksreview.net/2016/08/failing/
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Ben Brooks:
> You should be confident in what you do, but know that failure can still happen — and failure is not good. That’s how you avoid failure itself — by seeing it as possible, and correcting mistakes which can lead to failure along the way, not the next time around.
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> What’s not ok is assuming that if you fail, everything is ok and you still get a trophy — sorry, you failed. Some of your employees lost their homes, cars, and have suffered because you failed. So no, you don’t get a trophy, or a feather in your cap, you’re just an ass going around a telling people that you are only more awesome now because you failed.