Trajectory

LESSON 6

ACHIEVING GROWTH FROM FAILURE

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

—WINSTON CHURCHILL

At this point you may be wondering about the old adage that failure breeds success, and what the implications of that are to your trajectory. Surely failure must involve a downward trajectory. However, before making such a sweeping assertion it's helpful to first understand the mechanisms that surround situations of failure. As long as you can take positive learnings away from a failure, you will be able to recover sooner than you otherwise would and in turn keep the situation from resulting in a sustained downward trajectory. In fact, if you use the lessons from your failure to build new knowledge ...