Ethics, Worldview & Influence

Learn From Experience

Every night at dinner, Sara Blakely's father asked her and her brother the same question: 'What did you fail at today?' If they had nothing to report, he was disappointed. If they had a good failure story, he celebrated. That single question reframed failure as evidence of trying, and it shaped Sara into the youngest self-made female billionaire in history when she founded Spanx at 27. In this lesson you will learn to turn raw events into reflections, extract specific learning from experience, review your own recent experiences honestly, and write a lessons-learned memo you can carry forward.