Don’t Forget to Learn from Winning
When the talking heads of popular culture share advice about personal growth, it almost always starts with learning from failure. There is so much to say about picking yourself up after a loss and bouncing back, we often forget about the virtue of learning from success.
In fact, the art of learning from winning is actually more important than knowing how to learn from losing. Research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business strongly supports that we learn more from success than failure. But not just any success. Success in the face of a significant chance of experiencing a meaningful failure.
It’s through the process of succeeding in the face of a significant challenge when you learn to embrace winning habits such as grit, resilience, discipline, and delayed gratification. This is because success breeds success. What’s more, it’s far easier to learn to keep doing what you are doing than to change.
So, the next time you or someone you coach, teach, or parent is finishing up a celebration of victory, turn the page from celebration to learning. These are critical moments of personal growth you must seize to win in the long-term.