Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Are some people born to achieve anything they want while others struggle? What is the real reason for their success? John C. Maxwell has the answer: The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
Most people are never prepared to deal with failure. Bestselling author John C. Maxwell says that if you are like him, you feared it, misunderstood it, and ran away from it. However, he has learned to make failure his friend, and he can teach you to do the same.
Maxwell takes a closer look at failure and reveals that the secret of moving beyond failure is to use it as a lesson and a stepping-stone.
In Failing Forward, Maxwell will show you:
- the key main reasons people fail,
- how to master fear instead of being mastered by it,
- and positive benefits can accompany negative experiences.
Filled with action suggestions and real-life stories, Failing Forward is a strategic guide that will help you move beyond mistakes to fulfill your potential and achieve success.
Discover how to confidently look the prospect of failure in the eye and move forward anyway. In life, the question is not? if? you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them? Stop failing backward and start failing forward!
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- Takes a closer look at failure and reveals the secret of moving beyond failure.
- Includes action suggestions and real-life stories.
- Helps you to move beyond mistakes to fulfill your potential and achieve success.
- Preface: Becoming a REAL Success
- 1. What’s the Main Difference Between People Who Achieve and People Who Are Average?
- Redefining Failure and Success
- 2. Get a New Definition of Failure and Success
- 3. If You’ve Failed, Are You a Failure?
- 4. You’re Too Old to Cry, but It Hurts Too Much to Laugh
- 5. Find the Exit Off the Failure Freeway
- Do You Mind Changing Your Mind?
- 6. No Matter What Happens to You, Failure Is an Inside Job
- 7. Is the Past Holding Your Life Hostage?
- 8. Who Is This Person Making These Mistakes?
- 9. Get Over Yourself—Everyone Else Has
- Embracing Failure As a Friend
- 10. Grasp the Positive Benefits of Negative Experiences
- 11. Take a Risk—There’s No Other Way to Fail Forward
- 12. Make Failure Your Best Friend
- Increasing Your Odds for Success
- 13. Avoid the Top Ten Reasons People Fail
- 14. The Little Difference Between Failure and Success Makes a Big Difference
- 15. It’s What You Do After You Get Back Up That Counts
- 16. Now You’re Ready to Fail Forward
- Notes
- About the Author
- Title: Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
- Author: John C. Maxwell
- Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
- Print Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Failure (Psychology); Self-actualization › Case studies; Success in business › Case studies; Success › Psychological aspects
- ISBNs: 9781400252336, 1418508322, 9780785274308, 9780785268154, 9780785288572, 0785274308, 0785268154, 0785288570, 9781418508326, 1400252334
- Resource ID: LLS:838A2A1398478E8B31D3F140E41AE0B0
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-05-20T17:49:03Z
John C. Maxwell, is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, coach, and speaker who has sold more than 33 million books in fifty languages. He has been identified as the #1 leader in business and the most influential leadership expert in the world. His organizations - the John Maxwell Company, The John Maxwell Team, EQUIP, and the John Maxwell Leadership Foundation - have translated his teachings into seventy languages and used them to train millions of leaders from every country of the world. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award, as well as the Mother Teresa Prize for Global Peace and Leadership from the Luminary Leadership Network, Dr. Maxwell influences Fortune 500 CEOs, the presidents of nations, and entrepreneurs worldwide. For more information about him visit JohnMaxwell.com.