5 reasons why sharing your failures with others is important

Sharing your failures with others can be a daunting task. However, it can also be an incredibly powerful tool for learning from failure. Here are five reasons why sharing your failures with others is important for learning from failure:

• It provides perspective:
  Sharing with others can provide valuable perspective. It allows you to see your failures from a different angle and gain insights that you may not have considered on your own. Others may offer different ideas or strategies that you had not previously considered, which can help you avoid similar failures in the future.

• It helps build connections:
  Sharing with others can also help build connections. By opening up and sharing your experiences with others, you may find that others can relate to your struggles and empathise with your journey. This can help build trust and deepen relationships, which can be invaluable in both personal and professional settings.
• It creates a safe space for vulnerability:
  Sharing with others can create a safe space for vulnerability. By being open and honest about your failures, you invite others to do the same. This can lead to a more open and honest dialogue, which can help you gain new insights and perspectives that you may not have considered otherwise.

• It encourages accountability:
  Sharing with others can also encourage accountability. When you share your failures with others, you are more likely to hold yourself accountable for your actions and decisions. This can help you stay on track and avoid making similar mistakes in the future.
• It helps normalise failure:
  Finally, sharing with others can help normalise failure. When you share your failures with others, you help break down the stigma that often surrounds failure. This can encourage others to be more open about their own failures and create a more supportive and positive culture around failure.

Steven Bartlett emphasises the importance of sharing your failures with others in his book, “Happy Sexy Millionaire.” He writes, “when you share your failures, you create an opportunity for others to learn from them, and you also create an opportunity for yourself to learn from others.” Bartlett also encourages entrepreneurs to be more open about their failures and view them as opportunities for growth and learning.

Sharing your failures with others is an essential part of learning from failure. By providing perspective, building connections, creating a safe space for vulnerability, encouraging accountability, and normalising failure, sharing your failures can help you grow and develop as an individual. As Steven Bartlett says, “failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of the journey.” So the next time you experience a failure, consider sharing your experience with others and see how it can help you learn and grow.

Who is ActionCOACH’s Business Coach Mark Dilks?

Mark Dilks is an accomplished business leader, experienced coach, mentor and business builder. He supports business owners, executives and teams across Milton Keynes, Bedford, Northampton, Luton & Dunstable in all aspects of building profitable high growth businesses; from start-up phase all the way through to maturity and divestment. No matter what challenges you are facing, Mark will invariably have encountered a similar situation previously and will be able to support you to quickly and efficiently overcome your business hurdles by sharing examples of how other business have solved similar problems that you are experiencing. He is motivated, driven, tenacious and is able to get the very best out of all the resources available to his clients and to ensure that the maximum results possible are achieved.