How do you recover from a big failure?

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Coming clean and apologizing. Like all humans, I’ve made mistakes and this is the only way.

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This plus it helps maybe laying out a path as to how you’ll avoid making the same mistake again.

It depends. What is it?

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Yeah, say more.

Assess what happened, accept what you did and did not have control over, learn from elements you got wrong that you did have control over and release the elements that you didn’t. Then pick yourself up and move on to the next thing.

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I watch the video good by Jocko willink a few times a week until I'm recovered

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Only a failure if you sit there and cry about it, otherwise it’s a learning opportunity. Dissect, understand, move on. That’s the former SF in me speaking

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