We do not have to look hard to find very successful people<\/a> who have failed, some of them many times before they found success. According to TIME <\/a>magazine, failure is the key to success for women. But why\u00a0do women fear failure? The Huffington Post<\/a>\u00a0suggests that when women\u00a0experience failure, they try to hide rather than acknowledge it. This silence creates the myth that they are the only ones who have failed.<\/p>\n So what can we do to overcome this crippling fear of failure? There is some great advice on Mindtools<\/a> which is well worth a read.\u00a0Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck identified a certain way of thinking shared by people who embrace their mistakes in the pursuit of success: the growth mindset<\/a> is resilient in the face of failure and sees it as necessary for learning and achievement. If you immediately berate yourself for a mistake, you\u2019re probably stuck in a fixed mindset. Dweck\u2019s website offers some powerful insights into changing your mindset, but the bottom line is this: to change your mind about failure, all you have to do is\u2026 change your mind. Stop beating yourself up. Successful people don\u2019t see failure as catastrophic, they see it as a good data point to guide their next attempts.<\/p>\n It is worth bearing in mind that failing is not the end of the world,\u00a0\u00a0indeed it\u2019s just a beginning of one\u2019s success. Look it as your strength and not as your weakness. Use it as your guide and inspiration in order to do more. The focus of our blog this week has been to\u00a0provide tips and support to our female students leading up to the Women in Leadership Conference<\/a>\u00a0which is taking place tomorrow. We hope the blog has given some food for thought and thank you for reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Think back to when you were a child... you were probably naturally inquisitive, curious, eager and willing to try new things. As a child when things didn't work out you probably moved on and tried something else. You probably didn't...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[71,8,72],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-leadership","tag-self-awareness","tag-women"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"images\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/02\/images.jpg\")
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