Episode 28 (Grow and Lead)

Losses are part of life. Successful people knows how to convert these losses into success. One of the main factor to support this conversion is to have a learning mindset. There are eleven factors that will support having this mindset. The book (SOMETIMES YOU WIN...SOMETIMES YOU LEARN) written by John C. Maxwell is talking about these factors.

The first factor is (Humility... the sprint of learning). Being humble will open the door for learning and best levels of achievements. Here are the reasons as per the author:

1) Being humble will make us have real perspective of ourselves and life.

- Ken Blancher says: (Being humble doesn't mean underestimate ourselves. It means that we think less in ourselves).

- Being humble will encourage seeing things as it is, learning approach and desire to improve.

2) Being humble will let us learn and grow against losses.

- Success won't come from getting rid of our problems and losses, but from growing from and with them.

3) Being humble will make us away from perfection and continue trying.

4) Being humble will provide us maximum benefit from our losses.

Being humble is an important ethic for effective leaders as well successful people and it will let us learn from our losses.

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Episode 27 (Grow and Lead)

Having learning mindset is very important for successful people. More important is to learn from losses since the lessons learnt from them is more than success ones. In order to have this learning mindset, there are certain factors required. In his book (SOMETIMES YOU WIN...SOMETIMES YOU LEARN), John C. Maxwell mentions these factors.

The author starts the book with a fact (When you loose, everything hurt). Why is this true? There are several reasons for that:

- Losses will make us emotionally stuck.

There is one nice quote by Lis Brown: (We put nice moments in our pockets while will put bad moments in our hearts).

- Losses will make us mentally defeated.

- Losses makes gap between (I should do) and (I did).

The author states some traps that people fall in such as Mistake, Compassion, Time, Perfection, Expectation and Justice.

- Losses won't leave us same people.

What do we need? We need to convert losses to wins. How? by learning from them. In order to achieve that, we need number of factors which will be explained throughout this book.

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