How do you pick yourself up after a failure and keep going?

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Learn from the experience. Use the experience as an opportunity to learn and grow.  Consider what you can take away from the failure and apply it to future endeavors.

Henry Miller · Answer

Take some time to think about what happened and what I could have done differently. This can help me learn from the experience and make adjustments for the future.

and it can be helpful to talk to someone I trust about my feelings and the experience. A supportive friend or family member can provide encouragement and help me see things from a different perspective.

Most important, give myself a smile and go on!

sinem alageyik · Answer

@pragruthaa This is a great technique. We can even evaluate our mistakes.

Divesh Patel · Answer

Do a brain dump and Create new plans for what can be next thought after the failure!

List all the points being the cause of failure. And start working on improving them.

This will surely need lots of patience but  finally, the results will always be positive comparatively

sinem alageyik · Answer

@diveshpatel You are so right. Thank you for the answer.

Pragruthaa Rabichandran · Answer

Being dejected after a failure would not change any outcome. I analyze what went wrong and how it could have been better which will help me the next time

Johannes Müller · Answer

failure means revealing the truth and with that you can learn and grow.
I know it's hard but the best thing is to acknowledge it and move forward with the long term goal in your mind

Bruce Liao · Answer

@henrymiller, that's a good idea. Sometimes, staying alone can also be helpful.

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I do this one thing above all, I pay special attention to how to think about what I'm thinking about, and how I use my imagination during my thinking. 
This means that I speak a lot to myself after a failure, and/or I listen/watch lots of words/images/videos that remind me constantly of "who I want to become and why I was born".
In my thinking I also tell myself this very important phrase; "If I'm still alive, it means I'm just going through a season where I faced failure, yet, my life can never be only full of seasons of failure". I follow up with this phrase by imagining and feeling all the great experiences I lived before, from the smallest to the biggest.
It's a whole mental process I engage in, because failure is like a bad spirit, once you experience it, it wants to live with you forever.

How do you pick yourself up after a failure and keep going?

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