Frank Voehl

About three years ago I handed in an exam in full awareness that my grade is going to suck, and lo and behold -- I failed the quiz (although I did pass the course with an A. Despite my best efforts, I wasn’t prepared well enough for the exam/quiz. Sure, the exercises sucked, but that’s just how life works. Yet here I am, writing a summary for Maxwell's , continuing my adventure into Failing Forward. That’s the exact kind of attitude John C. Maxwell wants to teach us with his book. Failing Forward is about losing some of the conditioning we’ve all come out of high school with – the paralyzing fear of failure. Even for the most talented of us there’s no question if we’ll fail. It’s a matter of when. Once we do, the real question becomes how we’ll react to it. That’s where John’s idea of failing forward comes in. It’s about seeing failure at the horizon, but still moving ahead with confidence.