“I came up short. Therefore, I am a loser.” So many of us walk through each day with this self-defeating mentality. Use these tips to change your perspective and see more success.
What can we learn from our mistakes and missteps? A lot. Individuals with ADHD experience failure more than other people. We run into problems with failure when we attach a judgment to it or allow one or two failures to define us – “I came up short, therefore I am a loser.”
When we see failure as a potential outcome of reaching our goal, we allow ourselves to learn from the experience. When we see failure as a dead end, we don’t learn a thing.Look for the lesson that failure teaches. Thomas Edison tried over 8,000 designs before he settled on a working light bulb. Those 7,999 other trials were not all produced in vain. Edison learned from the failed designs and kept them in mind as he developed a working prototype. We can learn from our unsuccessful attempts and use that knowledge when we try again. If we don’t, we will probably repeat the same
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