The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success

coping resources. When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don’t define them.

It’s easy for us to describe the lofty goal of attaining failure immunity, but getting there is another matter. Here’s an exercise to help you do just that—the failure reframe. Failure is the raw material of success, and the failure reframe is a process of converting that raw material into real growth. It’s a simple three-step exercise: 1. Log your