Known Unknowns with Henrik and William12 Mars 2021

1.8: ”Failing miserably is fine as long as you don't fail the failure”

Why is it important to embrace and celebrate failure? And why is it important to foster a culture in a workplace where you are allowed to fail?

”Hopefully, your worldview is growing everyday. There's a bunch of things you don't know. So whenever you try something new you are going to fail at first, but ultimately you're going to learn something; your worldview will change. If you're not failing in life, that means you're actually not learning anything,” William the Wiseacre philosophize, referencing his recent studies of the Dunning–Kruger effect. 🤓

Henrik talks about a strategy he used to break a vicious circle of never-ending preparations and subsequent feelings of failure due to anxiety, and shares two very embarrassing anecdotes of past failures that have shaped him and his thought-process. 😅

”89.000 people got the 'Breaking news: Terror everywhere' newsflash. Needless to say, I felt terrible. I'm still embarrassed about this, but the positive outcome of it is that it wasn't the end of the world. I have been using this anecdote when talking to junior Product Owner colleagues who are afraid of doing something wrong,” Henrik explains.

Links:

Dunning-Kruger effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

”Breaking news: Terror everywhere” (in Swedish): https://www.dagensmedia.se/medier/dagspress/mansklig-faktor-bakom-di-s-terror-push-6905400

Josh Lenn: https://www.joshlenn.com/

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