Feedback – The Food of Champions

This post may seem slightly esoteric, and in some ways it is, but it has the potential to make a massive difference in your life. If you think about the people that are having successes that you want it is quite easy to see what they are doing right. But the thing is, there is a lot of things that those people may have done wrong to work out what the ‘right’ thing to do is.

This is because to learn we need to get results that make us change our behaviour, for if your behaviour was perfect you would already have the success you desire, right? So in many ways the speed in which you achieve success relies on the speed at which you fail. Or to put it another way, the speed at which you push your boundaries and learn more successful behaviour.

But if your ultimate success relies on potentially many short-term failures, well, are they really failures? Or have they become steps towards being successful? That’s right, failures are simply feedback steps towards becoming successful! So next time things don’t go to plan you can stop beating yourself up about what you did wrong. Instead you could feel really glad that you have had this learning, because, as long as you get the learning, that feedback has taken you yet another step closer to your ultimate success!

There is no failure, only feedback.

Related posts:

1. Feedback Sandwich The Feedback Sandwich is a great technique for effectively telling...
2. Are You Looking in the Mirror or Out the Window? In his book, Good to Great, Jim Collins talks about...
3. NLP Modeling One of the key parts of Neuro-Linguistic Programming is the...
4. Are You Even Listening? How could we tackle the topic of communication without delving...

Let's Get Started