How to Fail at Practically Anything

Why failure is one of life's most valuable lessons:

...it’s the failures we face, large and small — and the way we face them — that make us who we are and give us the opportunity to make ourselves better. How we fail is at least as important as how we succeed.

Failure is the most important learning tool we humans have at our disposal. But if we merely accept failure and move on, we may as well not have failed at all. Instead, we should embrace our failures, milking them for everything they’re worth. Ask yourself what you can take away from your failures, what you’re being given by them.

In the end, it is only by embracing failure that we achieve success. In many cases, not to fail is, in itself, a failure.

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See my previous posts:

• Failing Forward
• Learning From Our Mistakes