What happens to us when we meet with failure repeatedly?
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magine you experienced a failure at work. The memory of it plagues you, and you just can’t shake it. You visit a doctor to explain your condition, and she administers a shot, prescribing a nap to immediately follow it. You steal away for a quick snooze, and when you wake up the memory is gone—forever. Sound like a scene out of science fiction? How about one in the not-too-distant future?
There is no question that an incident involving failure—either small or spectacular—can lodge into your memory bank like a heavy stone. But moments of failure (OK, sometimes they feel like decades) can teach us a lot about ourselves, and what to do differently the next time. There’s a lot we can learn if we don’t try to stuff failure into a drawer right after it happens, or hide it away in a closet to keep company with the cobwebs and holiday decorations. Resist that temptation to throw it away, because it’s an opportunity to become smarter.
But as we all know, it can be hard to embrace failure when it’s staring us in the face. Most of us have been conditioned from a very early age to achieve, to win, and to get all the answers right. To appear wrong is to appear weak, or so we’re told. And that “pain” you’re feeling? Most likely: bruised pride. Many times it’s this pride that keeps us from leveraging the pearls that lie just below the surface of a perceived failure.
Although many of us strive with all our might to avoid failure (a truly impossible feat), we do so at a cost. We may find that our ability to bounce back has atrophied. And just like there’s no crying in baseball, there’s also no moping (for too long) in business after experiencing a setback—although there should be plenty of reflection to let all the lessons bubble up into your conscious memory. To succeed as a professional, you need resiliency just as much as you need traits like ambition, skill, and creativity. Because here’s something you can always count on: failure is inevitable. And until there’s a vaccination to ward against it, the best remedy is the ability to roll with life’s unavoidable punches
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First, just accept how you feel. ...
Remember: you're not a failure just because you had a setback.
Be constructive and learn from this situation. Remind yourself: anyone who wants to do things of value in life will fail. ...
Let it out into the light. ... Find inspiration and support from your world.