Get a Return on Failure
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
What would you attempt if you knew you would get a positive return on the failures you encounter? In this episode, John is sharing a lesson on how you can powerfully shift your perspective on failure in your life and leadership!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow sit down and give you practical application for what John has shared.
Key takeaways:
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Success and failure belong together.
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On good misses, I make adjustments. On bad misses, I make excuses.
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There are no shortcuts to success.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Get a Return on Failure Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/ReturnOnFailure and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. Our podcast is committed to adding value to leaders who multiply value to others. I'm Mark Cole and I can't wait for you today to listen to what John Maxwell is sharing. |
| 0:23.7 | John's going to talk about failure and specifically how to get a return on failure. |
| 0:28.8 | Failure is a normal part of life. |
| 0:32.0 | But the determination and the inspiration to get a return on your failure is a skill that you must embrace if you want to make |
| 0:40.9 | it to the top. It was Henry Ford who said failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, |
| 0:47.5 | but this time more intelligently. I think Henry Ford, I think he was successful. I think Henry Ford would say, and he has said, |
| 0:57.5 | I failed more than I succeeded. There were more things that didn't work that I tried again, |
| 1:05.3 | and from that lesson was finding the automobile that has worked, hasn't it? |
| 1:12.8 | So if you want to make it to the top, |
| 1:16.5 | if you want to get more out of your failure, |
| 1:19.4 | John's going to talk to you in this episode. |
| 1:21.1 | John asked the question, |
| 1:25.8 | what would you attempt if you knew you would get a positive return on the failures you encounter. |
| 1:28.5 | So as John asked this question at the beginning of his lesson, I'm going to challenge you |
| 1:32.6 | throughout the lesson to begin to notate what it is that you would do if you knew you |
| 1:38.9 | would get a positive return. |
| 1:40.5 | After the lesson today, I'm going to be joined by Tracy Morrow, our co-host, and we'll offer you some practical advice, some insight that will help you apply this lesson to your life and leadership. |
| 1:52.9 | If you'd like to download the free bonus resource, which by the way, still, as I said a few weeks ago, we have started now allowing you to have |
| 2:04.6 | application questions, insight questions, questions that will draw helpful things out of this |
| 2:11.1 | lesson as a part of our bonus resource. So go check it out. It will help you. If you would |
| 2:16.1 | like to watch this podcast episode on YouTube, you can get the bonus resource. You can watch it on YouTube by going to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash return on failure. Now grab a pen, grab a paper. Let's go learn how to fail well with John Maxwell. |
| 2:40.3 | I'm delighted to come to you today, and I'm very excited about what I'm going to share with you, |
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