if you have been bombarded by failure recently my word of advice to you would come out of my failing forward book and it would be very simple advice find the good and a bad experience hi John Maxwell here welcome to minute with Maxwell we're going through failing forward chapters and I'm doing my best to in these minutes few minutes every week and every day to teach you how to fail correctly I would also greatly encourage you to purchase my book failing forward it's a million seller and of the 9500 books that I've written without any
question one of the 10 top books that I hear from people as far as how it's changed their life is when they read failing forward I've literally had people when they got out of prison look me up and come and say while I was in prison somebody gave me failing forward it taught me to change my mindset my attitude about failure and I'm a free person today because I read that book that was a very rewarding time for me when I recently heard a past inmate give me credit to getting him out of prison now
let me tell you something I didn't get him out of prison he got himself out of prison because he made a good choice he decided to change the way that he was thinking and that's what this is all about every bad experience has something to teach you it's something that you can learn and the moment that you learn from a bad experience it becomes a good experience you see when failure faces me and I've been introduced to it and I've done it I have two choices to make I can either uh blame my my failure
on somebody else or excuse myself uh basically what people have the wrong attitude toward failure to do they leave the scene they leave the scene they say oh my gosh I got to get away from failure as quickly as I possibly can I didn't do it wasn't my fault don't want to think about it anymore don't want to go back there hey I'll never do that one again I think it was Mark Twain that said if a cat sits on a hot stove that cat won't sit on a hot stove again Mark Twain also said
that cat won't sit on a cold stove either that cat just don't want to sit on stoves well what's happened is had a bad experience ience didn't learn from it after a while thought all stoves were probably bad that's not true you see if you are fearful of your failure and it makes you feel bad you want to leave it as fast as you can you leave the scene if you leave it you never learn from it you extracted no good from the failure you just extracted negativity from that failure and you say not going
there again but if you take a bad experience and you stay with it you don't leave it you learn from it you can either leave it that takes a makes a bad experience a worse experience or you can learn from it that makes a bad experience a better experience when you learn from your failure you don't repeat it because you learn from it now what you're doing is you're improving your life and that's what perspective does you take a bad experience and make it a good experience why how by not leaving but learning thanks for
being with me today on minute with Max W enjoyed my time with you stay with me we're going to talk a little bit more about how can you fail forward [Music]
