But failure is good for you!
While we wouldn't go so far as to say you should seek to make mistakes and find failure, there certainly is something very positive that comes from an unsuccessful attempt: we call it experience.
The reason failure feels so bad to us is because it feels like it's a reflection of our abilities, not realising that the most successful people in the world frequently make their own mistakes. It's how we learn - what makes us grow as people.
It's crazy to think that Richard Branson, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs reached their level of success on a path of straight wins, yet in the moment of defeat we forget that in the long run experience can be a more valuable tool than accolades.
I think Zig Ziglar summed it up best when he said, "If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost."
The moment you realise that your successes and failures don't define you, that they are all just experiences that you can learn from if you choose, is the moment that you lose your fear of failure and truly begin to grow.
Embrace your failures, pick yourself up and try again. There's nothing to fear but the fear of failure!
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