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#65: Reflections on a recent failure

The Academic Imperfectionist

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How to Avoid Sugarcoating Failure

We could all be learning more from our failures than we typically do. It's true that as Bradetown observes, we tend to sugarcoat failure. Sugarcoding failure is something we do when we're not actually in the process of failing. Fresh from a failure, we just feel miserable about it. We're not ready to look on the bright side yet. But there also an opportunity to examine what success is for us. Perhaps then we don't need to be so afraid of failure. We can be brave and look directly at it.

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