How can we handle failing?
In the second part on the topic of failure, let's talk about some ways to deal with it. As mentioned before, failure is a big part of our lives. It teaches us valuable lessons. There's an adage that says “If you're not winning, you're learning.” When we fail, we need to look for how we could have improved and what we could have done to change the outcome. You can’t change the outcome of failure, you can only build from it to succeed next time. Soon enough when you are able to understand your failure like the back of your hand, you can become successful. In my life, I’ve learned that the best way to handle failure is to have a short term memory. In the darkest parts of my baseball career, I tried to think way too hard. I put so much pressure on myself to succeed and was scrambling to fix all the wrongdoing. But that’s just not how it works. I’ve realized and I am still understanding that I am going to fail. I’m going to have bad days, but it's how I can bounce back and come back the next day even better is where I can make a difference. Instead of getting frustrated with a bad at bat, I look back at what I could have done differently and move on from it. I try my best to not let it affect the rest of the game. You never know if you're in a bad head space and all of a sudden the whole game is on your shoulders to make the last play on defense. Sports are a great way to learn about ourselves and how we handle adversity. The great athletes are able to handle adversity the best and that's what makes them so great.
