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Hi and welcome back, brave human!

How have you been so far!!!!!!!

Today is all about what we should do when we….

FAIL.

Because believe me, I’ve failed more interviews than any of you combined. But I’ll let you in on a little secret, the more you fail, it means the more you are attempting to do something.

These past two weeks, I’ve felt like a F.A.I.L.U.R.E.

🥂 Cheers to that 🥂 

So today, you and I are going to decide what to do with this unpleasant feeling.

1) Changing Perspective on Failure

The first thing we are going to do is stop naming ourselves as a failure!! Because I know how your inner critic works, because no one is more critical than ourselves. And we are going to blame our failures on our lack of preparation.

In a study by Hall et al. (2004), college students watched an 8-minute video where peers and a professor explained how poor performance could be due to lack of effort or ineffective strategies (factors we can change!!!!!) instead of lack of talent. Students who received this reframing intervention subsequently showed improved academic performance, earning higher final grades than a control group.

So.. We are going to:

• Be more honest with ourselves, how well did we actually prepare?

• Blame it on the lack of effort, not the lack of talent

2) Cultivate Your G.R.I.T. (Passion + Perseverance)

Grit is that stubborn refusal to quit. It’s what keeps you grinding on the days you’re ready to throw in the towel—and it’s what separates people who give up at setback #1 from those who end up crushing their long-term goals.

My favorite book (Grit by Angela Duckworth) shows that perseverance of effort (not raw talent) predicts success across wildly different arenas—from West Point cadets to spelling bees to Ivy League GPAs. The “consistency of interests” piece means you stick with something for years, not just until it gets hard. (Sorry to break it to you, we might be here a while 😛 )

3) Resilience-Building: Bouncing Back from Setbacks

Resilience refers to the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties or failure. Psychologically resilient people don’t avoid failure; instead, they weather failures without losing confidence or motivation. ( When I am not feeling pretty, this is defff not me)

A 2017 systematic review in Clinical Psychology Review (Johnson et al., 2017) analyzed dozens of studies on how people emotionally handle failures and mistakes. These are the traits they found in common:

• High Self-Esteem: Your self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself. Having a high self esteem ( Yes, you can be a little cocky 😉 )

• Optimistic attributions for failure, aka (DELULU is the SOLULU) : This interview did not go as well because I had never seen that pattern, not because I am a failure.

So here is to changing our failure into an opportunity 🍾 !!!!!

Denisse

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