Start seeing your low points and temporary failures as starting points. Instead of giving the many mishaps in your life the power to destroy you with disappointment, instead of hightailing it out of there by any means possible (including unsustainable, unhealthy, self-destructive means), instead of labeling yourself a giant loser who will never get it right, hang around for a minute and appreciate the architecture of your fail—learn from it; be curious about it; and if it applies, be impressed by just how colossally gigantic a fail it was! And then carefully, thoughtfully, and with a robust
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