No one likes failing or the rush of negative feeling that comes along with it; it’s equally true that all of us—no matter how smart, gifted, or alert—will experience a variety of failures and setbacks over the course of our lives. Falling on your face, now and again—whether it’s a job or investment that goes south, a relationship that crashes and burns, a goal that remains unmet despite your every effort—is just part of the territory marked “being human.”

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