Meditations on God

Failure is only failure if there is no lesson in it.

It is up to you to figure out what that lesson is.

It may not be obvious or may be as simple as needing to be better prepared, to try harder, or to pursue a different course of action in the future.

This is not a prescription for delusion or groundless optimism, however.

Some failures are difficult to reconcile.

Simply looking for the bright side is not the same as being honest with yourself, digging into the root cause of your failure, and doing the necessary work to make failure’s lessons worthwhile.

But as long as you can find some way to turn your failure into fodder for growth, you have made progress.

And in the end, progress is all that any of us can really hope for.