Why writing about your failures can help you stand out

Do you write about your failures as part of your content marketing?

It might feel counterintuitive particularly when a lot of business communications are about success but it can really help you stand out from the crowd.

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And here’s why.

Not everything goes to plan. Not every plan is successful.

For every success, there is a history of things not quite going to plan.  I was listening to an interview with Jamie Oliver yesterday and he reckoned his failure rate was at around 40%.

What made it a really interesting listen is in how he talked about his failures – he talked about what he learned from them.

Learning from failures

No one gets everything right the first time – or the second. We learn from what doesn’t work.

We figure out why something wasn’t a success and we adjust our approach, our strategy, our thinking. And we try again.

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