Creating Space to Talk About Failure | Debugging Shame 👾
Like Princeton professor Johannes Haushofer mentioned in the now infamous ‘Failure CV,’ when we fail to talk about rejection, it robs us — especially those of us at the beginning of our careers — of a true understanding of the halting trajectory of success.
When there’s no space to share our failure stories we hide: we toss only the laminated, curated bits of our journey into our community’s echo chamber until all we hear is the phrase that, “rejection and being successful cannot occupy the same space.”
Time to begin to disrupt the pattern.
Posts like the one above either begin or end important conversations on what type of communities of conscience we want to build. As such, these type of revelations can be either an on or off-ramp to the type of transparency that builds authentic and robust communities.
…sad the law firm below chose this verbiage in their rejection letter — words like those can be the building blocks of shame that may cause the person in turn to be intolerant of the journey of others.
Glad she chose to share it. Sometimes, “light is the greatest disinfectant.”
