Fear of the face-plant

Learning from failure is like me (out of shape person) and working out: I know it's supposed to be good for you, but I'm certainly not eager to do it in public, what with all that sweating and grunting.

C.S. Lewis apparently once wrote “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” and Colin Powell, that “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

I think someone famous ought to elaborate on this theme of learning from failure and say something like "Learning alone from failure makes profits, but sharing failure makes markets." <- feel free to modify and redistribute, no attribution.

For example here's a story about a how an ED blogging the financial woes of her nonprofit is benefiting a whole tribe of consultants, EDs of other organizations, as well as herself.

One hurdle to this notion of deep radical sharing is that it's not all that appealing to be wrong in public. I think we all need to take a deep breath and get over it.