Pulling yourself together after a failed project, job, or experience of any kind can be daunting. Failure might tempt you to be lazy and do nothing, but that's the worst way you can deal with it. Failure doesn’t define you. How you manage it and recover is what really matters.

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Before you can move on and learn from any mistakes, try to figure out what caused them. Leave your ego behind, and analyse the situation as if you were someone else. If you can’t comprehend that sometimes it might be your fault, you’ll never be able to learn from failure and move on.

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The best way to reverse the negative impacts of failure is to move forward. Plan what you are going to do next, or how you can resolve a mistake, and keep going! Even if you were unprepared to experience failure, you can still take the right steps to manage the situation and bounce back better than ever.

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When scrolling through social media, or listening to motivational speakers, you’ll often only hear about success, never failure. This isn’t the reality, as every person's path to success is full of setbacks along the way. For example, even Michael Jordan didn’t make every shot he attempted, but he kept going.

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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan.

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