Failure Is The Fuel To Power Your Next Breakthrough

Failure Is The Fuel To Power Your Next Breakthrough

July 2, 2026 · 21 min

About this episode

Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss how to learn from failure and transform it into progress as an entrepreneur.

Failure never feels good, but trying to dodge it or downplay it keeps you from learning what you most need as an entrepreneur. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explore why you should let failure be failure, fully feel the emotion, and then transform that energy into better thinking, better timing, and bigger progress. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode: Why people sometimes avoid thinking about a failure. Why you should allow yourself to fully experience your first failure. Where entrepreneurs set themselves up for the most unhappiness. The new Strategic Coach® thinking tool that shows you how you handle your failures and your breakthroughs. Show Notes: If you don’t learn from your failure, you’ll fail the same way again. When you fail, let yourself feel the full negative emotion once, then use that energy to decide what you’ll do differently next time. A person who keeps failing at the same thing with no learning and no change in behavior becomes a failure in that area. Repeated failures in the same way can start to erode your sense of who you are as an entrepreneur. Every failure is sending you a message about your thinking, preparation, or timing…

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