Navigating Failure

Timothy Clark flips the context in this Forbes article on psychological safety by talking about what it is not, and how to avoid leadership missteps that result in a lack of accountability. He defines psychological safety as “an environment of rewarded…

This article from James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, walks a reader through different stages of failure to help clarify, or identify a problem. Clear provides explanations and stories that help the reader reflect on his own situation and gain…

To define and understand impacts of failure and associated coping mechanism, we will be using following resources: Book: Carver & Scheier (1998) – On the Self-Regulation of Behavior: Used to provide the baseline definition of failure. Their work on “Goal-Performance…

The Psychology of Self-Defense: Self-Affirmation Theory examines how individuals protect their sense of self-integrity when faced with threats such as failure, criticism, or negative feedback. The core argument is that people are motivated to preserve the belief that they are…