The words your team uses about failure

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The word you pick is the temperature you feel.

Robbins makes a small claim with large effects: the habitual words you use to label an experience set how strongly you feel it. Call a setback a "disaster" and your body answers a disaster. Call it a "snag" and the heat drops enough to think.

Watch a team after a miss. One says "we got crushed." Another says "we read that one wrong." Same result on the board. Two different rooms — one bracing for impact, one already reaching for the fix.

Mindset on Steven A. Rodríguez

The words your team uses about failure