Consider setbacks and failure as part of the process

Summary

• Don't allow a setback to destroy your morale. View it as part of the process

Details

• Expect setbacks, and use them to incorporate lessons going forward.

References

• Paul Graham article on great work

Quotes

One of the biggest mistakes ambitious people make is to allow setbacks to destroy their morale all at once, like a balloon bursting. You can inoculate yourself against this by explicitly considering setbacks a part of your process. Solving hard problems always involves some backtracking. ⤴️

Related

• Failure is a positive sign that you are trying to stretch and do something beyond your current abilities
• Practice failure
• Benefit from failure
• We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible because only in that way can we find progres - Richard Feynman