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I Mark Raven, here, my upcoming 
book, the mistakes that make us 

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in the book, I share insights 
and strategies for cultivating, 

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a culture of learning 
Improvement and Innovation a 

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place where mistakes are 
embraced as opportunities for 

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growth and punishment is 
recognized as counterproductive 

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to learn more about the mistakes
that make us visit mistakes 

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book.com. 
Hi, it's Mark Raymond here. 

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Welcome to episode 331 of lean 
blog audio. 

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This is a post that I published 
on. 

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May 1st 2023 titled. 
Why keep asking, what's your 

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favorite mistake? 
So, I found some material on if 

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you will The Cutting Room floor 
for my upcoming book, the 

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mistakes that make us 
cultivating, a culture of 

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learning and Innovation and of 
supplemented that with some new 

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material, kind of flush it out 
into a blog post here, which you

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can find at lean blog dot org 
slash audio. 31. 

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If you weren't able to attend 
the event, I did on my second 

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alive, book cover reveal event. 
You can find a link to that 

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recording is now available. 
You can see what the cover to my

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book. 
Looks like it was a fun, 30 

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minutes with Elizabeth Swann as 
the host and helping me talk 

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through this again, lean blog 
dot org, slash audio 331. 

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So I've asked more than 215 
people. 

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The same question releasing two 
hundred and eight episodes to 8,

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here's the question. 
What's your favorite mistake 

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now? 
You might wonder why I seem to 

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be so obsessed with this 
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It's not because I love 
embarrassing people or because I

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want to gloat about the mistakes
of others. 

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I asked this question to learn 
and improve myself as a person 

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and leader. 
The upcoming book and the 

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podcast series are meant to be 
reminders that we shouldn't mock

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people for their mistakes. 
We shouldn't be too hard on 

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ourselves, even if that's easier
said than done as the stories in

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the book illustrate everybody 
makes mistakes. 

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Starting with me. 
The key is learning from these 

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mistakes in a way that drives us
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Positively we might not love 
that we made a mistake but we 

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would hate repeating it or 
failing to learn and grow. 

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Some people in companies learn 
that making, small mistakes 

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prevents us from making larger 
mistakes, which I also wanted to

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explore. 
I explored learning from 

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mistakes in the 2017 and 
theology book, that I edited and

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published called practicing 
Lane, after writing the first 

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two chapters, I recruited 15, 
friends, and colleagues from my 

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field to follow my lead and 
sharing stories about mistakes. 

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We made in the first few years 
of our if you will practice of 

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lean Management in various 
Industries, It was my first 

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self-publishing experiment and 
and that wasn't a mistake. 

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Although it is a mistake to 
think quote-unquote 

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self-publishing means doing it 
yourself and that's something. 

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I will explore in a future blog 
post realizing that some people 

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would be willing to share their 
past mistakes, their favorites, 

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even and Lessons Learned in a 
book chapter practicing Lane. 

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They gave me more confidence, 
about finding interesting 

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podcasts, guest willing to talk 
about the same thing. 

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The lean methodology encourages 
us to be humble. 

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Humble leaders, which includes 
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going to be perfectly correct 
lien teaches us, that we can 

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always improve in the best way 
to improve is through hypotheses

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and experiments, we have to be 
willing to highlight problems in

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admit mistakes. 
Which means L must make it safe 

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for others to do. 
So the stories from former 

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Toyota people, which you'll read
in this book, clearly 

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illustrate, these mindsets and 
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It took me over 25 years of 
practicing lean, which means 

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learning, and doing to Is that 
one of the keys to Toyota 

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success is a culture of learning
from mistakes in interviewing 

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leaders. 
From other companies helped me 

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realize that a similar culture 
built on similar leadership 

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mindsets and behaviors. 
Bring similar levels of success,

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you'll perform better relative 
to your competitors who don't 

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have the same culture of 
learning from mistakes. 

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The book practicing lean was 
meant to remind ourselves 

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starting with me. 
Especially me to remember that. 

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We all tend to make mistakes 
when learning and practicing 

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something new. 
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idea that Physicians are 
practicing medicine and 

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attorneys are practicing law. 
Completing a degree or a 

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training class belt or otherwise
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has ended. 
It's only just begun, deliberate

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practice, including learning 
from mistakes, helps us learn 

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grow and succeed. 
The book practicing lean also 

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reminded us not to be too hard 
on others who are many years 

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behind our own learning curves. 
If we can encourage people to be

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open about their mistakes and 
learn from them, they might 

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surpass. 
Our skill and experience levels 

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before long I believe in and I 
try to lead, by example, as do 

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the guests on my favorite 
mistake admitting and sharing my

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mistakes and meetings blog posts
book chapters or podcast 

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episodes. 
Hopefully creates some space and

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psychological safety for others 
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Or that's, that's my intent. 
That's my hope. 

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We all make mistakes. 
I think the best of us managed 

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to learn from our mistakes in a 
way, that turns out to be 

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positive for our careers and for
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That's the spirit of Of my 
favorite mistake podcast and the

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book, the mistakes that make us 
not asking what's wrong with 

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you. 
Why did you make that mistake? 

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But instead of asking what did 
you learn and how do you help 

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others learn and grow. 
So for the blog post go to lean 

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blog dot org, slash audio 3314 
the my favorite mistake podcast.

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Look, whatever app or service. 
You are using to listen to this 

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podcast lean blog audio, or you 
can go to mistakes, podcast.com.

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For the book. 
Again, the mistakes that make us

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cultivating, a culture of 
learning and Innovation to learn

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more. 
Go to mistakes, book.com For the

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book. 
Again, the mistakes that make us

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cultivating, a culture of 
learning and Innovation to learn

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more. 
Go to mistakes, book.com