Todd Dewett – How the Pain of Failure Can Inspire You to Become an Expert

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drdewett/"><strong>Dr. Todd Dewett</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a best-selling leadership author, educator, and professional speaker. After beginning his career with Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young, he completed his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior at Texas A&M University and enjoyed a career as an award-winning professor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today he speaks, writes, coaches, and has created an educational library of courses at LinkedIn Learning that is enjoyed by millions of professionals in nearly every country in the world. Visit him online at</span> <a href="http://www.drdewett.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">www.drdewett.com</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>“Hard work always pays, but it’s not always in money. Sometimes it’s in growth and learning, and sometimes that ends up making you more money in the long term.”</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todd Dewett</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <h2><strong>Worst investment ever</strong></h2> <h3><strong>The successful young professor</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todd was a young professor teaching classes and writing papers. His little fledging side career of speaking at conferences started to grow. Todd was getting more and more calls to speak at conferences. He was now feeling happy, grateful, and entirely too full of himself.</span></p> <h3><strong>Jumping on a trend</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todd was doing an ancient podcast back then when no one was doing them when he noticed an obvious trend or what he thought was an obvious trend. He noticed that that microlearning,  shorter focused videos from YouTube were becoming popular.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Todd kept getting feedback from students and people in the community and businesses about his talks. And so he figured well if h