Mark Rober reframes failure by borrowing the mental model of video games: when you fall into a pit, you don't say 'I'm bad at games' — you instantly want to try again. Apply that to breakups, bad presentations, and failed businesses. The issue isn't the failure, it's internalizing it as identity instead of treating it as one life lost on an iterative level. Toddlers learn more between ages 0–5 than at any other period precisely because failure isn't in their brains yet — it's just data.
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