James Laughlin reframes failure as essential learning. Harvard professor Amy Edmondson studies how teams learn from mistakes, and Thomas Edison iterated thousands of times before the light bulb worked. Ask what you learned, then move forward.
I've got some amazing news for you today. Learning to fail can teach you to thrive. Amazing. Author and professor from Harvard Business School, Amy Edmondson, wrote a whole book about it. But the idea is failure can be our friend. We can learn from it, we can pivot from it, but failure is actually essential if we want the rewards. We've got to go through adversity, we've got to learn, we've got to make mistakes and we've got to iterate. Think of Addison. I don't know whether it was a thousand times or ten thousand times, but it took a lot of iterations before he got the light bulb sorted. So I want you to think about your failure and know that it's just a moment in time and it's an opportunity to learn. This is your moment to learn. Look back on today and say, what could I have done better? What did I learn today? Not what did I fail at. Failure is simply learning. Just reshape that and move forward.
