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Why Do We Feel Happy When Others Fail?
CommentsView the discussion thread.When Angelina Jolie announced her divorce from Brad Pitt last year, I put work aside immediately and started to lap up news and videos that promised any scoop on the...
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T.D. Jakes Wants You to Suffer
The preacher, entrepreneur and author found his blessings in brokenness, and success amid failure. “I can still see his cracked, parched lips, fever blisters and all that.” Bishop T.D. Jakes is silent...
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The 7 Reasons We Fail
Plus, how to rebound from our misstepsAs any successful person will honestly admit, failure happens, and we’ve all had our fair share of it. But from each failure, we learn two equally valuable...
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Let’s Stop Talking About Impostor Syndrome
CommentsView the discussion thread.At the beginning of the year, I had one of those thunderclap moments in which multiple threads of my life were telling me the same thing. My daughter turned 1; I had...
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3 Ways to Manage Your Perfectionist Tendencies
Contrary to popular belief, perfectionists aren’t always winning marathons, heading the PTA and pitching new businesses.Perfectionism isn’t a cute Martha Stewart craft. “You’re such a perfectionist,”...
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12 Empowering Lessons About Failure
Facing adversity and rejection: What you can do to thicken your skin.Building the confidence necessary to take failure in stride isn’t easy. And it certainly doesn’t happen overnight. Like all great...
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Why We Should Stop Glorifying Failure
CommentsView the discussion thread.Every year I do a little spring cleaning, tossing old magazines and the like. This year I have something else I’d like to cast out: the glorification of failure. Our...
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To Be Successful, Burn Your Boats
CommentsView the discussion thread. “If you want to take the island you need to burn the boats.” —Tony Robbins Nearly five years ago, I was facing an important decision, a career crossroads that,...
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7 Mistakes These Successful People Will Never Make Again
And what you can learn from their biggest failures.No one ever made it to the top without encountering challenges or setbacks along the way. Fail enough times and you’ll eventually succeed. Related: 12...
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10 Mistakes Smart People Never Make Twice
Smart, successful people are by no means immune to making mistakes; they simply have the tools in place to learn from their errors.Emotionally intelligent people embrace mistakes for what they...
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The 4 Reasons Why I Love to Fail
CommentsView the discussion thread.Who loves to fail? I do!That’s right, you read that correctly. I know it might be hard to believe, but it’s true. Failure is painful, humbling and exposes you as a...
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10 Things Successful People Never Do Again
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.“Never go back.” What does that mean? From observations of successful people, clinical psychologist and...
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Why You Shouldn’t Fear Rejection
CommentsView the discussion thread.I reject the fear that rejection is something to worry about. Let me explain.Rejection almost never happens. In fact, rejection—at least the kind we all so...
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You Can Overcome the Science Behind Helplessness
You never have to give up. To understand the psychology of failure and success in the modern world, we need to step back briefly in time. In the 1960s, Martin Seligman was not yet the founding father...
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Why You Need a Failure Résumé
CommentsView the discussion thread.Failure gets a bad rap. It's the other “F” word, loaded with bad grade school associations. And in a social media age in which cultivating a network and branding...
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How to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection
View the discussion thread.There isn’t a week in which we don’t feel we won’t be rejected in some way. Being shot down by an out-of-control internet troll, or receiving a firm no when we had...
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4 Big Mistakes You Should Avoid Making
CommentsView the discussion thread.Early in my career, I was named pastor of a church in California. To my congregants it was a well-loved worship hall, steeped in tradition. To me it was an...
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5 Self-Sabotaging Behaviors You Should Avoid
Check yourself before you wreck yourself. Let’s be honest: Sometimes we are our own worst enemies. Too often we stumble into pitfalls of our own making. Some mistakes are inevitable, no matter how much...
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Do These 4 Things When You Make a Mistake
CommentsView the discussion thread.A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. This quote from Coach Wooden is one of my favorites because it...
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Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Making Mistakes
CommentsView the discussion thread. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” –Coach John Wooden These two sentences become a mantra that...
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