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Admitting Failure
Humans tend to blame mistakes on external events, circumstances and people. Admitting failure goes against our ego, as we think it exposes our incompetence, leading to potential loss of respect and self-esteem.
This makes us fear failure and highlights our tendency to attribute success to our efforts, and failure to circumstances.
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Admitting Errors
Many mission-critical work environments report errors and mistakes on time. This is because the employees are allowed to commit and share mistakes, and report them without fearing that they will be sacked. This psychological safety is crucial to a healthy work environment.
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Destigmatizing Failure
Recognizing that failure is healthy and a normal consequence of working in a complex environment can help us look at failure as a learning process instead of dreading it. It also helps to let your failure(s) be out in the open, making them visible to yourself and others.
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Our Attributional Styles
- Pessimists take everything personally, leading to any kind of failure hurting their self-esteem.
- Optimists attribute failure to external, localized circumstances and keep their self-esteem and positivity intact.
The Blame Bias
Our natural response to failure is to blame others, circumstances, or a momentary lapse of judgment.
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Why Change Is So Hard
Changing is necessary and takes energy but our brains tend to try to conserve energy as much as possible. So we have mental biases that influence our behaviors and make us shy away from opportunities—even when they benefit us in the long-term.
Two of the main bias are loss aversion a...
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