The Best Way to Overcome a Setback
…That was the real problem. She hadn’t figured out how to come back from the first setback. And with every successive misstep, the next failure seemed more inevitable. Which made everything scarier and out of control. To succeed, Monica realized she would have to change her mental approach. Budding medical professional that she was, she decided she should diagnose the situation, just as if a patient had walked into a clinic with a problem.
This is a key shift—when you stop thinking about how you’re feeling about a situation and become more focused on why something has happened….
