"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus." ~Robert South
How do you view defeat? How do you react? Are you discouraged or revived with a feeling of "I can do it better next time?"
What would happen if everyone looked at defeat as "a learning experience?" How much further would we be in our businesses, our relationships, our life?
The challenge here is to get away from the thought patterns that defeat means that we can't do what we attempted? Thomas Edison was defeated 10,000 time in trying to make a light bulb work but he viewed it as 10,000 ways that it wouldn't work, not as he was defeated.
When you suffer a defeat, give yourself 5 minutes to "hash, re-hash, and bitch." Then take the time to see what went wrong so the next time you will do it better.
Remember that there is no defeat until you give up. That is defeat. But just as there is no failure, only feed back, there is no defeat, only learning experiences.
"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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