How do you recover your confidence after you fail?

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Senior Information Security Manager in Software3 years ago

It says in the book of Proverbs: Seven times the righteous man falls and gets up.

The falling is an intrinsic part of the process.

So when a person fails, they need to get up and try again and realize that while they have failed, they are not a failure. 

 

Director, IT Cloud & Site Reliability Engineering in Manufacturing3 years ago

Usually a detail and public "postmortem" will get your confidence back!  Cloudflare is a very good example, they frequently post public detail technical postmortem on their outages.

Director of Information Technology in Services (non-Government)3 years ago

I always maintain that,

I would rather be on my deathbed thinking back going "well, That was really stupid. What were you thinking?" instead of laying there thinking, "I wonder what would have happened if only I had..."

Senior Director Engineering in Travel and Hospitality3 years ago

Firstly don’t consider it a failure. Look at the bright side and to take learning’s from it.
Speak to your mentor or hear and dear ones, bounce back.
A leader is defined by what s/he focuses in the future than to rue the past.

Community Manager in Software4 years ago

Thank you everyone for such inspiring responses. This question was inspired by a fantastic conversation I had with Beth-Anne Bygum last week!

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