Bill Wooditch - Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success

Praise for Fail More

Fail More, a seemingly paradoxical title, is actually a diagram for winning in work, relationships, and life. Through fascinating stories and examplesas well as concrete toolsthis book is a life-changer! No one makes it to the top without having failed. Wooditch is on point again!

PAUL NEMIROFF, PHD, MD, FACS
NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED SURGEON AND AUTHOR OF NINE LIVES: A STORY OF SURVIVAL AND HOPE: OVERCOMING OBSTACLES, LABELS, AND BEATING THE ODDS

Understanding how to succeed comes from a heavy dose of failing and being resilient. Bill explains in this engaging book how failing teaches us more lessons than succeeding. Fail More reveals a great map of clarity on how failure can become our friend and mentor.

LEONARD WHEELER
8 YEAR NFL VETERAN, NFL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NASCAR PERFORMANCE COACH, AUTHOR, AND SPEAKER

Bill Wooditch nails it! Through revealing personal anecdotes and citing the examples of others, he shows how failure is not only part of everybodys journey to success, but an outcome we need to embrace if were ever going to achieve greatness. This book is the way forward!

SCOTT BURROWS
MOTIVATIONAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF VISION MINDSET GRIT

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This book is dedicated to the memory of Curt Brown, Sr.

Client, mentor, and friendyour passion for work was only exceeded by your love of deep sea fishing. Not a day goes by that I dont feel the deepest appreciation for the man you helped me become.

T o Kelsey McDaniel, the sine qua non of this book. You helped me refine my raw voice while keeping this rambling, discursive writer on point. Your unwillingness to cede or compromise quality on the altar of expedience made me and by association, this book, better. I couldnt ask for a more prepared, professional and creative partner.

To my publisher, McGraw Hill, who kept me on tight deadlines and was unwavering in the pursuit of excellence.

To Steve Carlis, who tirelessly worked with me for months on a subject I never wouldve broached without him.

And to Angela, who opened my heart to possibilities that have now become realityyou lifted me from the fog of frustration and inspired me to push forward.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

COLIN POWELL

I f you want to be successful, you need to fail more!

I can write fancy motivation to try to trick you into thinking you can avoid failure, or I can just tell you my trutheither you need to do something and you do it, or you dont want something bad enough and you dont do it. The common thread that connects every successful person youll read about in this book is that they all found failure to be essential and instructive in their pursuit of greatness. Failure was part of their recipe for success.

Its a fact that everything you do involves an element of risk and failure; the only thing that varies is the degree and nature. Wise choices inspire growth, engender happiness, and imbue you with the confidence needed to push the risk envelope further. Poor choices sap your confidence, result in worst-case consequences, and force you to lament the risk you took.

This book will not only identify your failures; it will dissect them, poking and prodding to see what went wrong and why. We will look closely at the anatomy of a fail. We will then talk about how to learn from your mistakes and missteps andmost importantlyhow to apply them in your next endeavor. You cant let failure stop you from trying again. A failure only stops you if you dont get back up. In order to overcome that first hurdle, however, we have to put failure on the sidelines for a moment and dive into fear.

Your innate fears as an infant were the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. After that, your fears came as a result of exposure to life. These fears may have come from experiences at the playground, in the classroom, or even at the family dinner table. Maybe you were called on to read something out loud in class and you mispronounced a word. The shame you feel is something you never want to experience again. This shame only gets heavier each time you resist exposure to those things that could draw attention, judgment, and ridicule. Now dont recoilits the very things that make you uncomfortable that you must expose yourself to, to bring you a familiarity and confidence.