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Rising Strong
February 28, 2023
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It's chic to say we want our employees to fail, that if they're not failing, they're not pushing the envelope enough.
Blah, blah, blah.
In our world, our real world, when we fail spectacularly, we lose our jobs.
So, it's refreshing to find a book that deals with the real stuff of failure, Rising Strong by Brené Brown.
"While vulnerability is the birthplace of many of the fulfilling experiences we long for – love, belonging, joy, creativity, and trust, to name a few – the process of regaining our emotional footing in the midst of struggle is where our courage is tested and our values are forged."
"Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it’s the process that teaches us the most about who we are."
"Embracing failure without acknowledging the real hurt and fear that it can cause, or the complex journey that underlies rising strong, is gold-plating grit."
"To strip failure of its real emotional consequences is to scrub the concepts of grit and resilience of the very qualities that make them both so important – toughness, doggedness, and perseverance."
Failure sucks.
But we all do it, so the key is dealing with it once it happens.
Self-confidence is built when we overcome failure and risk.
Hope of better times comes from enduring struggle and failure.
Try to remember that when you’re downsized – again – and most people won’t return your calls.
“Success is never final and failure never fatal. It’s courage that counts.”
That quote is usually attributed to Winston Churchill. He knew spectacular failure and suffered deep depressions, yet persevered and saved his nation.
There’s another reminder you might keep handy: IF by Rudyard Kipling.
“If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
but make allowance for their doubting too…If you can meet with triumph and disaster,
and treat those two imposters just the same…If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the Will which says to them ‘Hold on!’…Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
and - which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son.” -
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