Ep11 Destigmatize Failure to Succeed

Send us Fan MailMost large organisations fail before they succeed, and the small failures are early warning signs that change is needed. All of our research is showing that to succeed in business as entrepreneurs and leaders in industry we must redefine failure. We need to get better at failing. We need to understand it, learn from it and share what we have learnt.  This podcast summarises our research into failure and the link with Psychological Safety, Resilience, Wellbeing, Impostor Syndrome and Belief.The episode also looks at the neuroscience behind the importance of errors and failure, and the importance of errors to prime the central nervous system to learn, and how frustration plays such an important part in creating our awareness that something needs to change. It will examine from a psychology perspective, why don’t we learn failure and why we actively try to avoid it. Finally we share some tips to recommend how we can overcome our reluctance to face up to failure so that we embed the motivation to keep trying and learn from our mistakes.In this episode, Amanda is being interviewed by Tim Hepworth. The Chief Psychology Officer website is now available https://www.thecpo.co.uk/To contact Amanda via LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzirconTo contact Amanda via email: [email protected] more information about the BeTalent Resilience or Psychological Safety questionnaires mentioned in this podcast please go to: https://www.betalent.comTimestampsDestigmatize Failure to Succeed00:00 – Introduction to Destigmatizing Failure00:24 – Fail to succeed?01:10 – 90% of Startups failHistory teaches us this02:18 – Henry Ford’s failures (though in his words “History is more or less bunk!”)03:54 – Trial and error is good, but we have to face up to it04:18 – Progressive05:11 – An opportunity to learn06:46 – IBM itPersonal experience with Failure07:19 – Personal failures?08:36 – Unconsciously incompetent09:34 – Success from learning from this failure10:54 – “Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes” – Oscar Wilde11:15 – What did you learn from this experience?The science of Failure12:42 – Neuroscience!13:24 – Errors shape our neuroplasticity14:00 – What happens when we make errors?15:35 – Dopamine is subjective16:04 – Rather Pavlovian…17:15 – Psychological DangerGetting into the right frame of mind18:44 – How to create an environment of Psychological Safety20:27 – How does Resilience stop you from learning?20:39 – Tunnel vision, negative thoughts, loss of perception of time & mitigated language22:02 – Negative thought patterns22:33 – Positive thought patterns22:42 – Loss of the Perception of Time24:46 – Mitigated Language25:39 – Accommodating authorityWhy can’t I learn from failure?26:23 – Why is it so hard to learn from failure?27:00 – Cognitive Dissonance27:56 – Fundamental Attribution Error28:33 – Sounds a lot like Hypocrisy…29:52 – Fixed Mindset30:33 – Personal perspective of Fixed Mindsets31:21 – Self Confidence or Imposter Syndrome32:02 – Summary of list of inhibitors33:01 – Global differencesFacing up to Failure34:41 – Overcoming the reluctance of facing up to failure35:17 – Set Approach Goals, not Avoidance Goals36:22 – Practice Self Compassion & Forgiveness37:12 – Incremental Learning39:40 – Why is Failure so important?40:22 – Failure is the main means of learning41:10 – The end.Episodes are available here https://www.thecpo.co.uk/ To follow Zircon on LinkedIn and to be first to hear about podcasts, publications and news, please like and follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betalent-by-zircon/ To access the research white papers mentioned in this and other podcasts, please go to: https://www.betalent.com/research For more information about the BeTalent suite of tools and platform please contact: [email protected]