Add learning from failure

You’ll learn much faster if you can leverage both sides an experience can offer.

Imagine you’re at a company and notice something working exceptionally well.

By studying this success intensely and understanding why it works, you can replicate it the next time.

Nice.

Now, imagine the opposite. Let’s say you come to a place with a lot of dysfunction. Things don’t work at all.

Perfect!

It means you get to play detective. You study the situation. Find the reasons for it—research potential fixes.

In the best case, you implement them and fix the problem(s).

In the worst case, your solutions get rejected, and you try again at a different company.

From my experience, there’s way more dysfunction than excellence.

If you only learn from the positives, you leave most of the growth on the table.

P.S. How much of your lessons learned come from “I’ve seen how not to do it”?

P.P.S. The inverse of how not to do it is probably not how to do it. But you’ve eliminated one bad way and are one step closer to the solution. Sometimes a big step.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend,

Taj