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I used to think failure meant I wasn’t good enough. Then I bombed my first improv show – publicly, awkwardly, thoroughly (you can read about it in the article I did with Bold Journey)
And something funny happened: It didn’t turn me off from improv, it was actually why I kept going. It didn’t feel like a breakthrough at the time, but it rewired something. Now I see failure less as a stop sign and more as a feedback loop. Trying and missing is still movement. It’s information. It’s progress. Especially for leaders – we can’t innovate if we’re only chasing certainty.