The Role of Failure in Raising the Bar

In this week's Moving Forward Monday we share Oprah Winfrey's 2013 Commencement Speech for Harvard University where she shares "It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you're constantly doing what we do, Raising The Bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."

We invite you to watch, laugh and learn with us through Oprah's famous brand of honest wisdom.

So this week, we take a minute to think about what it really means to fail and whether Failure is really the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad thing we have all been raised to try to avoid. To be ashamed of. After all, if we learn from our mistakes, aren't we actually better for making them? If we consider that we learn and grow the fastest, we really push harder to Raise The Bar when we feel the sting of pain, maybe Failure isn't only an unavoidable part of life, maybe (if we use it to grow) Failure is the best way to Raise The Bar and achieve more for ourselves.

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