Leadership Principles: Make Failure Your Friend

A Moment of Hope · Mar 30, 2023 · 4m

We have two more days of leadership principles that I want to share with you. I learned these while playing under Coach Dean Smith at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Coach Smith would regularly tell us, "Make failure your friend." He knew that we would only be failures if, after messing up, we never tried again.

This is especially true in our culture when so many practice what is called "cancel culture". It is so destructive and is creating a world where even the hint of a mistake becomes a source of fear instead of an invitation to something better.

Before succeeding, Thomas…