Chapter 4: Stamina
If I make a significant mistake or face a disapointment, I cannot deal with it positively at once. As I wrote on writing assignment 2, I am very dissapointed at my mistake or adversity immidiately after facing it. After that, I always try to think positively and overcome desparately. However, in fact, there is a little anxiety or trauma in my mind. Therefore, until now I might be afraid of making a mistake again and could not completely let my feelings of guilt or frustration distract me.
Especially from the message of "Make dicisions, make mistakes, and move your expedition forward"(68) in texts, I feel the importance of making dicisions and mistakes, and changing mistakes into nourishment.
We cannot avoid all of the mistakes even if a nice leader like Shackleton. However, we have to make dicisions in every situation under a possibility of mistakes. Therefore, what is important is the power of changing mistakes into norishment.
I think that we have to learn something from mistakes, not continue to regret or have a feeling of guilt. Probably, it will mean stamina.
We see ourselves and the situation in the long-term and keep a balance in our mind without being too disturbed by mistakes. Such act will lead to success and make us real leaders.
Thus, stamina is one of important elements for leaders. I want to strengthen my stamina from naw on to overcome adversity.
Hi Haruka,
ReplyDeleteThanks your your post. What you are saying about finding it difficult to overcome your disappointment after making mistakes is common for many of us. For me too, I find myself sometimes spending too much time worrying about a mistake instead of just moving on.
One thing I have found that helps is identifying and naming the mistake I have made, and then really focusing on what I can do next time not to make the same mistake. Then I can realize more the positive aspect of the mistake, that it was a chance, an opportunity to learn, a positive thing, rather than the negative thing it could be if I didn't think about a way to learn from it. In other words, "Out of every negative, create a positive."
Ken