Why You Need to Fail - by Derek Sivers

The importance of failure - for effective learning, growth mindset, and quality through experimentation.

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[Bex Tindle]

Inspiring - I love it! Treat life as an experiment! That is all... :D. Thanks Derek, and for the injection of humour too. It helped carry the story along!

[Piitsi]

Smarts helps for sure, but could it also be that the ones who didn't develop as much, weren't that self driven or interested in their work? Maybe they just repeated the same fixed practices and had a fixed mindset.

In my limited experience a genuine interest about one's work is the key, and a will to improve oneself makes a world of difference. Talent is a factor, but it can sometimes be over emphasised.

Check out the TED talk about Grit. It pretty much touches on the same issues.

:-)

[swiinka]

Just like a great Polish poet, Cyprian Kamil Norwid said "Those who never fail are those who do nothing." Brill example with music lessons, unfortunately, many music teachers are very old-fashioned put way too much pressure on perfection...

[Kelly A Jennings]

Great video. I find that providing people (teams,students,casts,individu­als) an authentic opportunity to play (experiment) fosters an openness and willingness to invest in the work.And when people play their trust expands,theirinterest grows,their mindsets begin tl shift from fixed tk open. That processes alone can be frightening for both employees and their employers.

[John Matthias]

I wish someone had explained this to me a LONG time ago, when I was teenager. I've had some success as an artist, but the terror of failure has been a huge hurdle and limited growth for a long time. This video expresses the concept so well. Watching good speed artists, for instance, I'm amazed by how many large changes they make and how much each piece is reworked. [I think schmudi1 is confusing talent with desire - you have to be invested in it.]

[shmudi1]

Nice words, but practically bullshit.

As someone who employed dozens of people, I can say that practicing will not make you good unless you have the talent.

I gave people chance after chance, but eventually they did not improve enough, because they were just not smart.

Not to mention that I am still twice quicker at a specific task then one on my employees, who does this specific task every day for a year.

[Huw Davies]

This totally goes with our lessons in our corporation and how we portray safety and understanding how we are leaders within the corporation!! Thank you for this!!

[Joe Kay]

This is by far the greatest video I ever watched!

[Ashraf Sheikh]

Derek Siver's Book should be required reading at MBA schools.

[Quoc Quynh Mai]

this touched me so deeply bc I find myself right now trying and working hard too.That statement ' Great work! I know you've been working hard' is all I long to hear.