The sooner you start viewing failures as learning opportunities, the better for you, claims an article on the addicted2success.com website.
Why did you not succeed?
Ask yourself why you failed. What caused the problem? Don’t just accept the fact you failed: you should also seek solutions. You need to identify your weaknesses and ways to improve. From your failures you can always learn something that you can apply later.
What is there to learn when you've just failed?
Learning from failures is easier said than done. It is enough for us also to experience some success at the same time and we are inclined not to focus on failure elsewhere. Another factor is that when we fail, we hate it and therefore are also not really ready to learn. Whenever you fail, make it a priority to extract just one new experience or lesson from it.
Avoid the same failure in future
Don’t do the same thing repeatedly and expect a different result. We are made by failures to the same degree we are made by successes. Failure is a normal part of entrepreneurship and life in general.
Don’t despair: it could be worse
Although it is often advised not to compare your situation with others because then you can easily become frustrated, sometimes it is helpful. Think about how the situation could be worse. Accept that failures happen. But still you have a mission to accomplish, even if you may fail from time to time. Soldiers go on missions and sometimes get killed. Your own business or personal failures are considerably less tragic if you have the chance to think about them afterwards.
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