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Why Failure Is Good for Success

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Society doesn’t reward defeat, and you won’t find many failures documented in history books. Society doesn’t reward defeat, and you won’t find many failures documented in history books. The exceptions are those failures that become stepping stones to later success. Unlike Edison, many of us avoid the prospect of failure.

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Your Business Failed, What’s Next?

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There’s no way around it: Failure is not fun. However, it’s an important part of life as an entrepreneur—even successful entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Vera Wang have colossal failures under their belts. I’d argue that if an entrepreneur has never experienced a failure, he or she isn’t taking enough risks.

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6 Books on Failure to Build Your Resilience

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You can react one of two ways when confronted by failure. It means accepting your scars and gaining success from them. Learning from failure requires certain tools that may not come easily. Only then can you seize success from the jaws of failure. The lessons are not simple feel-good platitudes.

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What Is the 10X Rule and How Can It Help You Achieve Your Biggest Goals?

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We often allow others to define our own personal success. Is success the nice car, the work-life balance, or the loft in the city? Sometimes, even cultural definitions of success can lead to personal failure if we let others guide us. Knowing what you really crave from life is the first step toward personal success.

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3 Ways to Silence Your Inner Critic When Trying Something New

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Lower the stakes of starting One thing that can keep us from starting something new is by associating starting with “must finish” and not finishing with “failure.” Or what if we train for a marathon and we’re not good at it? We need to make the conditions for success easier to meet by taking the “must finish” out of the requirements.

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Should People with Grit Ever Give Up?

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You’re overwhelmed and you’re not sure the job is a good fit for you. Why can it be so hard for them to give up even when they should? Why can it be so hard for them to give up even when they should? And if we’re feeling overconfident, we may over-inflate our estimation of our own skills, potentially leading to failure.

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10 Ways to Stay Motivated From People Who Refused to Quit

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1 tip they use to stay motivated, persevere and achieve smashing success in the face of challenges. 1 tip they use to stay motivated, persevere and achieve smashing success in the face of challenges. All of my best successes came on the heels of a failure , so I’ve learned to look at each belly flop as the beginning of something good.

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