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Recently, I’ve been asked to lead conversations on failure quite a bit. A few of you have emailed asking me to touch on a series I started in late 2018; one I even turned it into a keynote called ‘ ‘the beauty of failure’ : unpacking how failure is something to be embraced rather than feared in our lives.

 

 

Fear of failure causes us to withdraw, protect ourselves, and seek the safety of comfort. It limits us and cuts us off from what may be waiting on the other side.

 

If you’re a creative, or work closely with anyone who calls themselves such, failure is likely a familiar part of the life you’ve chosen. Creative arts? Failure is virtually guaranteed at some point in your development. Leading projects or people? Definitely (if you haven’t failed in some way already, you probably aren’t really pushing at the edges of where you should...