I like to call a failure a failure—without denial, and without glorification. If I feel it might be constructive, I’ll indulge in a short (five minutes seems appropriate) period where I berate myself, but from what I’ve seen, viewing a failure as some romantic anecdote where I demonstrated toughness, or some catastrophic loss where all is lost, ignores the potential gift that hides within it.
I believe failures are opportunities to expose shortcomings—whether they originate from lack of capability or just plain old ignorance—which arm me with knowledge I can use on my next endeavor.
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I’ve had enough of those to recognise what is and isn’t.
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Learning to accept and learn from failure has been hard for me to do, as I get older I’m getting less frightened of it!
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So very true
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Yep… the only true failure is the one where you don’t learn from it.
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I can learn from my failures, but trying to apply what I have learned can be hard.
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If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived. It’s inevitable to fail at quite a few things in life.
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