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How do you Learn From Your Failures? How do we make failure less threatening to the ego? Research offers a few suggestions: – By David McLean Source : David McLean LinkedIn 1️⃣ Observe other people’s failures In their paper, Eskreis-Winkler and Fishbach propose removing the ego from failure as much as possible by looking at other people’s failures first, before you take on a task yourself. 2️⃣ Get some distance If negative emotions are getting in the way of your understanding, they also suggest trying self-distancing techniques. 3️⃣ Share your own failure story People tend to hide their own failures, out of a sense of shame, but there are ways to turn failure into success by transforming it into a story of growth. 4️⃣Recognize your successes There are other ways to shore up your own ego. Studies consistently find that experts are better able to tolerate failure in their fields, ...

Grow More Food – Oscar E V Fernando Our proud boast of being the Granary of the East is a far cry today but we have hope as we still have the same fertile land that can be tilled-this time after having consumed the last dregs of humiliation in having been reduced to the begging bowl from the Grand Granary-and also as we have the same mold of people who can be made to put their hands to the plough with proper guidance on techniques, modern equipment and a youth friendly rural society-this time guided private entrepreneurs and not by our chair-warming and lethargic ‘public servants’ this can be achieved with enticing invitations to local and foreign investors on the basis of Public Private Partnerships-for tilling of the land. On accepting aid from capitalist/communist countries It is apt to touch on this much hackneyed subject which is common knowledge to the ...