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Failures are lessons, success is the reward for learning them.
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Do you think that learning from failures is easy?
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It means there is no reason to interpret failure as a negative event. Unless you throw up your hands and give up, then any given failure only brings you closer to success.
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Do you tell that to the people at the next furneral you attend?
Don't give up your desires to party with the dead person?
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It means there is no reason to interpret failure as a negative event.
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That is just not true.
You don't have to interpret failure as negative.
The question is whether choices to see failure as negative is a viable rational choice.
People who feel no pain due to inhereted disability all die in accidents because they are unable to judge certain situations as negative through feeling pain.
In poker you sometimes play a bad hand and bluff to increase the return of the good hand, because your opponent will more likely think that you are bluffing when you have a good hand.
If you choose not to play bad hands at all you have an disadvantage in poker.
I think that you have a similar disadvantage in life when you elimate everything negative out of your mind.
It important to play some of the bad hands that life deals to you.
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If you are aware than your identity cannot be defined by ANY events in your life,
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You can make the choice of not learning from any events in your life, but whether that is a good decision is an entriely different question.