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Jun 13, 2023 · Generally, when people fail at something, their immediate response is self-loathing. They’ll berate themselves for being idiots or losers because they didn’t succeed at their attempt. Instead of thinking “I failed at this,” their inner voice says “I AM A FAILURE.”
- Finn Robinson
- Embrace Your Emotions. Failure is accompanied by a variety of emotions: embarrassment, anxiety, anger, sadness, and shame, to name a few. Those feelings are uncomfortable, and many people will do anything they can to escape feeling emotional discomfort.
- Recognize Unhealthy Attempts to Reduce Pain. You might be tempted to say, “I didn’t actually want that job anyway,” but minimizing your pain won’t make it go away.
- Practice Healthy Coping Skills. Calling a friend, practicing deep breathing, taking a bubble bath, going for a walk, or playing with your pet are just a few examples of healthy ways to deal with your pain.
- Acknowledge Irrational Beliefs About Failure. You may have developed some irrational beliefs about failure at some point in your life. Perhaps you think failure means you’re bad or that you’ll never succeed.
- Be kind to yourself. It’s an old one, but a good one: practise some self-compassion. Being self-compassionate entails being kind and non-judgemental towards yourself in the face of difficulty — including failure.
- Resist “socially prescribed perfectionism” If you feel that other people expect you to be perfect, and will judge you harshly if you fail to meet their expectations, you experience this type of perfectionism.
- Don’t worry too much if you were over-confident — and wrong. Overconfidence is not a good thing; it leads us to study less hard and make more mistakes.
- Try not to take evidence of failure too personally. A recent set of studies on almost 1,700 American participants, published in Psychological Science, found that feedback on what they had got wrong on a variety of tests or tasks rather than what they had got right — a “failure focus” rather than a “success focus” — undermined subsequent learning.
May 25, 2017 · Unfortunately, we often do exactly the wrong things after failing, thereby perpetuating our failure. The next time you fall short of your expectations, refrain from these three instinctual...
- Caroline Beaton
What to Do When You Feel Like a Failure. Believe in yourself and your failures won’t feel so big. Posted Nov 08, 2016. SHARE. TWEET. 85COMMENTS. Source: Pexels. The result is always the same:...
Nov 4, 2022 · When you fail, you are trying something. Trying is better than not trying at all. The only way you can fail at something is to try something. Failure teaches you what works and what doesn’t...
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Oct 30, 2016 · 1. "Things didn’t work out the way I wanted, but I’m still OK." Turning failure into a catastrophe isn’t helpful. Keep failure in proper perspective and choose to be grateful for what you...
