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If you're anything like me, failure is avoided as far as possible and can be a terrifying or lonely place. My first reaction is a type of dysphoria where I push back against any acknowledgement of failure, but eventually, I have to come to terms with what is. Before getting to the productive aspects of failure, I need to go through the tragic confrontation of this fear and feeling of failure.
- Soothe by letting go and offer yourself the kindness to sit in the sorrow
- Wait and release your expectations, paying attention to this experience
- Accept the groundlessness and make peace with new information about who you are and are now
This is a combination of me unpacking my understanding and a series of messages to my future failed self.
Resources:
- Defeat - Khalil Gibran
- When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chödrön
- East Coker - TS Eliot
- Setbacks
- Failure is an option
- The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
- Embracing failure - Olivier Serrat
- How to fail with Elizabeth day
- Define your fears
- The dream we haven't dared to dream
- The benefits of celebrating failure
- Finding another way
- Turn failure into success
- Know the taste of failure
- Introduction to When Things Fall Apart
- Failure is just failure
- Cringe