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First of all, you must imagine which are the progressive steps that would bring you from the simplest mistake to the biggest disaster.
If you already know your flaws, it will be easy to find a starting point. But if you don’t, start with the basics: lack of motivation, procrastination, poor goal setting, etc.
Each step could split into multiple consequences. However, it would be better to reduce complexity and focus on one mistake at a time.
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In the beginning, as you have never experienced any failure, your list will be raw and incomplete. But don’t worry! You have time to improve it the first time you face a setback. And, as you get to know your flaws better, you could enrich each step with a cause, probability, and even reme...
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You are reading an excerpt from The Challenge, a newsletter where I discuss self-improvement, goal-setting, habits, time management, and health tips and tricks.
Every week you will get:
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If we shift our mindset from fixed to growth, we could achieve two results:
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Pick one of the projects you care about the most and build a few how-to-fail lists for it. Start with a specific flow you have. And then try to make it worse and worse. Write the probability for each step, its cause, and a possible remedy.
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Awareness is the first step towards improvement.
Yes, I know – it’s obvious. But, sometimes, the most obvious thing is the hardest to cope with.
So, to avoid deep falls, you better be aware that anything could go wrong. Sometimes, even terribly so. And you have to be ...
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A How-to-Fail list is a sequence of steps that describe the many ways your project could fail. And you can build it following four simple steps.
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When you are passionate about something, you try your best to avoid mistakes. You put your heart on the line and take everything too seriously. And every failure or setback seems like the end of the world.
Yet, no matter how careful and perfect you try to b...
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Most people act as if they could never make mistakes. They see failures as the ending of their careers and dreams. So, the first time they crumble, they get burned.
You may survive a failure or two if you have a fixed mindset. But, eventually, you will give up
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Okay, good. Everybody should write at least one how-to-fail list. I will assume I convinced you. But what is that?
That’s pretty simple.
A How-to-Fail list is an exact description of the events that could make you fail a project that means a lot to you.
But not only that. It mus...
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The first steps of your lists will always have a high probability because they are your most common flaws. But you should also be aware that worse things could happen.
I won’t bother to make a How-to-Fail list for events that have a 1% probability of happen...
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And then, you must find a remedy for each step that could help you climb back to the initial state when everything worked fine.
Search for a remedy will be almost impossible if you have never made a mistake. So I suggest you read other people’s stories to find possi...
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Here’s a short list of benefits in case you are not convinced yet.
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