When you allow setbacks, rejection, delay, or whatever you’re perceiving as failure to serve as a commentary on who you are, it’s hard to move forward because you stop believing in yourself. You lock yourself out of a growth mindset. When you’re in a maladaptive space, failure has the final say on what’s possible for you. When you don’t allow rejection, delay, or failure to serve as a commentary on who you are, it’s easy to move forward because you still believe in yourself. You step over the failure like a napping dog and you keep going. When you’re in an adaptive space, you don’t give
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