John Maxwell gives numerous examples that helps show, how you respond to failure will determine whether you will be an achieving person or an average one. The advice he gives on how to turn mistakes and failures into learning opportunities are simple, and everyone can do them. Failing Forward is a 15-step method to having success through failure. Throughout the book, John Maxwell uses many well-known people to show how success can come through failure and give them some inspiration. No matter what problems occur Maxwell uses humor to show how common failure is and teach you how to overcome them. The main point of the book is to change your attitude about failure, which will then help you move forward and turn failure into success. Personally, I find the book Failing Forward inspirational. It shows how you can turn failures that you think could end your career into small ones that lead to massive success. It gives a ton of short stories that make reading the book so easy. One thing that did bug me is that it seemed to repeat itself a little bit, but as an overall book, it was eye opening.
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The reason I say this is usually people view failure as a bad thing, but the people in these few chapters call failure a good thing. For example, when Beck Weathers lost his nose, one arm, and the fingers on his remaining arm he was still positive because he made failure his friend. You need to take risks to be able to move forward in your dream, and that is what Beck and many others understood. From this section, I learned that it might be scary at times and you might lose some limbs, but none of this will affect you enough to make you quit if you make failure your friend. Without failure, you would never know how to fix anything, or you would never know what was wrong that made it not work. You need failure to accomplish your