Dave WordenTriumph Business Solutions · Founder

Stop Doing More of What's Failing

19 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, the speaker argues that true progress requires the courage to admit when a strategy has failed and to stop persisting with ineffective tactics. He critiques the common mindset of "doggedness"—the belief that sales will magically appear or that more enthusiasm alone will fix a failing approach. Instead, he promotes a cognitive learning process: recognizing failure, analyzing why it occurred, and deliberately choosing to pivot or avoid repeating the same mistakes. The speaker warns that blind faith in a non‑working path is more damaging than simply acknowledging failure, urging listeners to adopt a reflective, evidence‑based mindset rather than stubbornly persisting with what isn’t delivering results.

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But I think we have to have the courage to say that was dumb or that failed or that wasn't the way. I think the misguided doggedness is, so there was no sales on day 1, tomorrow there will be. Or I went to this college gig and no one bought a book. I got to speak more enthusiastically or do more. Right. So doing more of what's not working is not leveraging failure. It's identifying what failure is, cognitively learning from that and say, what can I use to spin forward or what should I avoid? in the past or going forward. But it's a cognitive learning. And I don't know if some people have that. Some people have blind faith in a path that ain't working. Right. And then they won't quit it. And that's even more dastardly.