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Summary: A Book everyone needs to read
Review: Excellent book for young adults as well as old adults! Tremendous advice for all regarding how we all have to learn how to "learn from our mistakes" and "failures" before we can truly succeed. I have had the opportunity to hear Dr. Maxwell speak and his book is just as exciting and thought provoking!
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Summary: Failure is actually success in disguise
Review: Failing forward - in this book John Maxwell, the disciple of risk, shows that failure is actually success in disguise.
1. How the most successful people in history were told by people that they would fail.
2. Focusing on mistakes: When you focus on not making any mistakes, you loose
sight of goals. Tom Peters.
3. I do not believe in fate that hits a person when he does something, I believe in fate that hits him if he does nothing.
4. Every century has its great discoverers - people that are willing to face danger and discover
new worlds and ideas. Americans love such people.
5. Long lasting barriers to achievement are created in our minds and not in our bodies. John Crawford.
6. We underestimate the opportunity and overestimate the process.
7. Never wait until the time is right - the time is never perfectly right.
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Summary: Use Setbacks to Overcome Your Stalled Thinking
Review: Failing Forward is one of the best stallbusting books I have ever read! It focuses on how to handle our emotions when things aren't matching up to our expectations. Dr. Maxwell identifies dozens of stalls that delay progress for those who are experiencing setbacks in their lives. While most people see setbacks as a negative, Dr. Maxwell points out that there is an important lesson that we can use to accomplish more in the future. Building on that appropriate and valuable perspective, Failing Forward postulates 15 principles that can help you apply the lesson. Each chapter covers a separate principle and is filled with self-diagnostic questions, as well as heart-warming examples of how people went from apparent failure towards great success. The work is very consistent with the philosophy of Anthony Robbins. If you are a Robbins fan, you will find this book to be a good complement to Unleash the Power Within. I strongly recommend that you read this book, and reread it the next time you are feeling sorry for yourself or have a setback. If you care about others, be prepared to loan your copy to the next person who looks morose after having a problem. Dr. Maxwell also offers a self-diagnostic test on the book's Web site (www.failingforward.com). I took that test and found it helpful to cement my understanding of the book. I recommend that you do this as well. Unlike most books about self-improvement that are scaled to a level of sophistication, this book should appeal both to those with lots of experience and education as well as those who have yet to develop those perspectives. The only people who will be confused will be those who have yet to experience any significant setbacks. They will wonder what all the fuss is about. To fill in that point, progress is seldom smooth. It usually looks more like 1 or 2 steps forward, and them some backward. In essence, we are talking about a zig-zag, even when things go well. At other times, the zig-zag can be downward.
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Summary: Don't Let Mistakes, Adversity,or Failure Kill Your Dreams
Review: Failure--when you see or hear that word, what kind of gut-level reaction do you have? For most people, it's pretty negative. For some, it's downright paralyzing. But did you know that you can learn to stop fearing failure and make it a positive stepping stone for your success? More than any other factor in life, the way a person deals with failure impacts his or her ability to achieve success. In a career of more than thirty years helping people, I have found one thing to be true: The difference between achieving people and average people is the way they perceive and respond to failure. Failure doesn't have to stop you. failure doesn't even have to be your enemy. It is actually possible for you to make failure your friend. You can put yesterday's failures behind you and approach today with confidence, knowing that failure will not stop you from achieving tomorrow's dreams. All you have to do is learn to fail forward. I wrote this book to help you do just that!
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Summary: John Fails Well
Review: Have you ever been pressed to meet a writing assignment deadline and you just didn't have the required length written on paper? What did you do? Did you stay up late probing the deepest depths of your soul to fulfill your educational committment? No, you got busy playing with the font, the margins and the spacing to make it LOOK like you'd done the assignment. It won't take you long to notice that Mr. Maxwell must have been operating under the same constraints. The book, which is barely 200 pages long, makes generous use of white space and uninteresting quote boxes. More to the content of the book... I am all about saying things succinctly, but this guy isn't saying anything. "Failing Forward" is a masterful attempt at creating a bound work that can, at best, help the author make the downpayment on his next house. Thought was in short supply during this writing as he mostly focuses on trite parental counsel, "Don't let failure make a monkey out of you." "You're too old to cry, but it hurts too much to laugh." "Generous people are rarely mentally ill people." Keep in mind that these are the quotes that, in the author's opinion, are worthy of a coveted quote box. I had high hopes that I could have gained a new and healthy perspective on the failure I sometimes encounter. Instead, I find myself disappointed that I didn't save the sales receipt for this insipid book.
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Summary: Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones....
Review: Having read several of this author's previous books I lookedforward to this one with great anticipation: it is even better thanexpected! Maxwell's thesis is that "The difference between those who are successful and those who are not lies in their perception of, and their response to, failure." He builds his case in a very convincing series of fifteen steps. At the end of each step (chapter) all of the preceding steps are relisted: I found this very helpful! No matter what your age, sex or occupation, this book will open your eyes. Get it!
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Summary: Great Resource
Review: Hi. Here are my thoughts about this book; it should be read a few times as life is a journey. The constructive advice that John provides is applicable for everyone. I thoroughly enjoy the numerous case-studies and anecdotes. This book also has a fabulous reference section. John shows that he has done a thorough research on this topic. A must buy for all trainers, mentors and public-speakers. Colin Ong TS
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Summary: Failure is a Given: Work With It
Review: Horatio Alger would love John Maxwell's "Failing Forward." Maxwell's bestseller is about persevering though crisis and through hard failures. Like many of his self-help contemporaries, Maxwell use lists to outline his ideas. Also like the other books on the "how to live life better" are inspiring anecdotes of famous success stories, like Mary Kay Ash and Truett Kathy. It sounds like an Amway sales seminar. Where I think this book is different is that Maxwell feels free to acknowledge failure as a given. Rather than pretending failure is a negative attitude, he unpretentiously says failure should be embraced. It is part of the risk process. Failure, Maxwell contends, is part of success. His play on words "failing forward" instead of "falling forward" is means more than to bring a smile. Like a running back in football, tackled hard by a player much bigger, will try to use the momentum of falling to reach the football another foot or two into the end zone. If he fell backwards, he loses a yard. If he falls forward, his team gets a touchdown. That is more or less Maxwell's thesis in the book. I fully recommend "Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes" by John Maxwell. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: Failure is a Given: Work With It
Review: Horatio Alger would love John Maxwell's "Failing Forward." Maxwell's bestseller is about persevering though crisis and through hard failures. Like many of his self-help contemporaries, Maxwell use lists to outline his ideas. Also like the other books on the "how to live life better" are inspiring anecdotes of famous success stories, like Mary Kay Ash and Truett Kathy. It sounds like an Amway sales seminar. Where I think this book is different is that Maxwell feels free to acknowledge failure as a given. Rather than pretending failure is a negative attitude, he unpretentiously says failure should be embraced. It is part of the risk process. Failure, Maxwell contends, is part of success. His play on words "failing forward" instead of "falling forward" is means more than to bring a smile. Like a running back in football, tackled hard by a player much bigger, will try to use the momentum of falling to reach the football another foot or two into the end zone. If he fell backwards, he loses a yard. If he falls forward, his team gets a touchdown. That is more or less Maxwell's thesis in the book. I fully recommend "Failing Forward: How to Make the Most of Your Mistakes" by John Maxwell. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: Wow! What a book!
Review: I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Maxwell this morning at my church. He did a brief overview of this book and how the title came to be. All I can say is READ IT! It will help you realize that we all fail! But when we fail what are we to do. . . To find the answer order the book!
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