How To Better Handle The Failures Of Your Past, Present, and Future
Six things to think about when you fail.
This isn’t another post about how failure is good for you.
Because the truth is failure is only good for you if you learn how to handle it.
To do that, I’ve found six concepts helpful to think about in the wake of a failure. They make it easier to learn from, cope with, and bounce back from any failure.
1. If it fails, it means it wasn’t good enough. But it doesn’t mean you’re not good enough.
The easiest way to mishandle a project failure is to mistake it for a personal one.
When a project fails, it means the project wasn’t good enough to succeed. But it doesn’t mean you’re not good enough to succeed.
It’s important to separate the two and not abandon your confidence, motivation, and opportunity because your first attempt (or 50th attempt) wasn’t good enough to succeed.
All failure feels personal, but that doesn’t mean it is.
Walt Disney was fired because he was told he “lacked creativity.”
