It’s nearly impossible learn skills without failing some of the time. In this episode Dr. Amy Climer examines the connection between learning and failing. She shares some stories from her own life and how she was able to use failure, mistakes, and mess-ups to further her learning and her creativity.
What You’ll Learn


* How failure is inevitable in the learning and creative process
* The importance of transferable skills

Resources

* How to Create a Podcast Review
* Amy’s email: [email protected]

Weekly Challenge
What is one thing you’re working on improving? What is one thing you can do to progress toward developing that skill? Write it down then try it. Next, reflect on how that went. How do you react when you succeed, when you fail, when things don’t go quite as planned?
Transcript
Feel like reading instead of listening? Download the free transcript or read it below. Enjoy!
Transcript for Episode #093: The Connection Between Learning and Failing
Amy Climer: Welcome to The Deliberate Creative Podcast Episode 93. Today’s episode is about the connection between learning and failing. I actually want to start the episode off by sharing a win. It might seem a little odd to share a success at the beginning of an episode about failing, but this particular success has a lot to do with you and the other thousands of listeners of The Deliberate Creative podcast.
With the launch of this episode, Episode 93, The Deliberate Creative podcast will reach 75,000 downloads! You all, I am just beside myself. I am so excited and amazed and incredibly thankful. I have learned quite a bit about the fear of failing with the launch of this podcast. My first episode I re-recorded, at least, five times. Plus, after that fifth recording, I still did quite a bit of editing. I took out all the ums and the breaths and the pauses and I just tried to make it as polished as I could because I thought that is what made for a really good podcast. One of the things I have learned over the last 93 episodes is that actually, what makes a good podcast is just being real and being yourself. Not that that is the only thing, but that is a big piece of it.
I also, over time, got better on the mic. I got more comfortable with it and it felt more natural to me. Whereas, initially, it felt very awkward and unusual and I could not quite get it right, if there was a right way. But I have got more comfortable over time. It has made me realize or I should say it has reminded me about this connection between learning and failing and that the more we do something, generally, the better we get at it, if we are doing a little bit of reflection and we are looking at what are the mistakes we made, how do we get better at that, how do we move forward.
This podcast has led to a lot of learning for me and hopefully it has also led to a lot of learning for you and that you have learned more about creativity and teams and leadership. But to me, the coolest part about the fact that this podcast has been downloaded 75,000 times is that that means there are thousands of people out there who want to learn more about being creative and helping their team be more creative and more innovative. This idea of deliberate creativity resonates with so many people. That just gets me so excited because imagine what the world would be like if we all could live to our full creative potential. I believe we have the capacity on this planet to solve ever...