SHAME IS INEFFICIENT.

When responding to your mistakes or failures with:
"What kind of idiot would think this was a good idea?"
"I should have never tried this."
"I should have known better."
"My team won't ever want to hear my ideas again."

... the result is that it freezes and fragments the part of us who had the impulse to experiment, to stretch into new territory, to grow.

It makes it almost impossible to be curious about the data embedded in the mistake / failure to inform future attempts at innovation.

It means that you'll be less likely to take risks in the future, which means that you'll carry on with the same (or worse) quality of thinking... which means that your progress will be slower.

There's no perfect path to the result that you're wanting. You *will* make mistakes.

Your job as a human, not a robot, is to remain as open to learning as possible... which means that you need to get really, really good at working through the inefficiency of shame.

This is the work we do in coaching: You'll learn how to work through shame and get back into learning mode, so that you can keep moving forward on your projects & goals with ease. Reach out.