Failure is probably one of the most important learning opportunities any of us can experience throughout our life and failures often go uncelebrated they go on recognized because we kind of just want to move through failure because it's painful or because we start to doubt ourselves we doubt the choices that we've made but it's incredibly important that we take failure not as an exhibition of our fault or our or self-blame but really look at failure as a. Chance to thrive and a chance to move into a new direction that can potentially bring even greater benefit and greater progress, whether it's professionally or personally in our lives and so I think we should re-retrain ourselves when we think about failure and stop looking at it as a point of shame, but look at it as a point of honor look at it as a badge of courage and as something that you can hold up as a opportunity that you've experienced to improve yourself and so I,Think we we should really look at even creating CVs even creating kind of a highlight reels of our failures throughout our life whether that's personal failures and relationships or professional failures. I think it's really important that we examine those failures critically reflect on them and don't hold them to heart they are not they don't define us they don't define who we are they're simply a milestone in our life that gave us a new chance.To move into a different direction to move into a new direction and hopefully to learn and improve upon the work that we've already been doing. And this concludes again both professional as well as personal failure so professional failure can be anything from submitting a job application and not getting an interview getting an interview and not getting the job and even getting the job but not necessarily performing up to your expectation or even the expectation of your supervisor now this is not to excuse failure, this is simply to point out that the our perceived failures are often not perceived by others as being failures, but just as being learning experiences and I think we can adopt that same mind. Set and rather than harshly criticize ourselves look at that look at that chance for taking what you've done and moving forward and not being satisfied with second best but really identifying the major flaws and the deficiencies and what we've done and being able to move forward from that and you can reflect on that any point in time in your life because sometimes failures kind of go by unnoticed you you do something you try it out and,That. Not really working so you just go on to the next thing you immediately try something different and that's great that's an important part of the process but then if you've done that for 10 15 20 years in your career, I think it's very important when you have these junctures in your life for self-reflection to think about those failures, what was it that led you down that path and have you kind of learned their lesson here because ultimately a lesson is repeated until it's learned.
