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Article: The truth about failure.(Brief Article)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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It's not as bad as you may think
Failure is not only a necessary part of doing business, it's a part of life. "If you're not failing on a regular basis, then you're probably not doing a whole lot," says Seaborn Morgan, a former manager with Employment & Employer Services Inc., a Chicago-area job counseling, training and placement agency. "How failure affects you is determined by you," he says. "You'll either allow it to make you or break you."
Morgan maintains that successful individuals learn to use failure to their advantage--they acknowledge it, analyze it and overcome it. "They also know that there is more to be learned by focusing on what went ...