When it doesn’t work out
by Parker · 7 things on Twos
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- We need possibility to do our best work. To believe that it might work. To understand that if we do our best work and bring our full selves to the project, we have a shot at achieving our goal. Hope is fuel.
- If we don’t, what then?
- The first opportunity is to learn from what happened.
- Maybe there is no solution. Maybe the thing we thought was a problem wasn’t a problem to be solved (because problems have solutions) maybe it was simply a situation or even a dead end.
- If there was no acceptable solution, or there was more bad luck than we hoped, then there’s no room for shame or blame or recriminations. All we can do is honor the situation and work to find the next thing, another opportunity to contribute or grow.
- Spending cycles on blame (of ourselves or others) is time we can ill afford to waste.