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It depends on how you handle failures. If you brood, accuse and judge yourself for being a failure, then you are right. You are a failure. You failed yourself. You were the victim, the prosecutor, and the judge, all in one.

Real success depends on how successfully you handle your failures. Success is not how little you fall. It is how fast you get up. Getting up means that each problem, each failure, is an invitation to learn something you did not know before, thus your mistake.

The more you learn from mistakes, the wiser you become. The wiser you become, the fewer mistakes you will repeat. A fool that thinks he is wise, is the ignorant one; A wise person that thinks he is ignorant is the wise one. Thinking you are wise and thus there is nothing to learn anymore is what makes you an ignoramus. A person who admits he or she is ignorant and is constantly learning is the wise person. And how do you really learn? By experience and that means not being afraid to make mistakes; AS LONG AS YOU LEARN FROM THEM.

Source: Dr. Ichak Adizes' mailout of the week