How do you deal with failure?

[Gerald Wilgus]

It’s hard to accept failure. It can be hard to move on and not think about things like that. I always tell myself that failure is not always a bad thing. You can take what you learn from your failures as life lessons you can use later on. You can learn a lot about failures.

So true. I've talked about my social failures, and even coming out of my cage and finally trying for a good relationship I had several failures. All of that taken together allowed me to grow and recognize in my future spouse the type of person I wanted to spend my life with. Now I think that all of that failure resulted in a great success in my life.

 

[autism-and-autotune]

How do you guys keep pushing forward after numerous setbacks in life?. I’ve experienced it for a long time and I’ve yet to see much of anything good come from it

It depends on the kind of failure. Lately my musical failures really really disappoint me and I get hung up on the little mistakes I make, and I hate it when my brain second-guesses and I make tiny pauses, tiny flaws in my playing because everything else prior was so perfect yet it's a penny which derails a train. I highly suspect this is both my autism and CPTSD coming into play, and I worry that I'll never succeed in becoming better. It's so so so so so frustrating.

 

[autism-and-autotune]

You can't ever fail if you never attempt anything.

Taps head.

big brain moment

 

[Mr. Stevens]

When the alternatives are suicide or homelessness, I'll take perseverance.

That's not in any way meant to blame all homeless people for their situation, just that it's an easy outcome of giving up when you have to support yourself.

 

[Degruzo]

Im just here for the ride wherever it takes me im dead at 100 anyway so no need to worry for me