A Lesson In Failure By Steve Jobs

Some people spend their entire lives fearing failure and doing what they can to avoid it. If this is a pattern you demonstrate in your life, then I suggest you click on the link below. The 5 minutes you take to read how Steve Jobs and Apple embraced failure, learned from it and moved on, may just make a difference to how you manage setbacks from now on.

A lesson in failure from Steve Jobs | Technology Spectator.

Having read the article, Job’s and Apple’s approach reminds me of one of the pressupositions of NLP -

“There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.”

Of course there is such a thing as failure, but the questions I have are:

1. What would happen if you were to reframe “failure” as simply “feedback”?
2. How different would your emotional state be if you did happen to fail but simply viewed it as feedback?
3. How would you go about doing things differently from here on end if you took that feedback on board, dusted yourself off and kept moving towards your desired outcome?

I wonder how different your results could be from that initial setback?

P.S – A big thank you goes out to my friend Paul Kallenbach, Partner at Minter Ellison for the link to the article.