<aside> 🎯 You can match the unsuccessful with the successful in every category except one; those who fail, when defeated, stay down, and those who are triumphant never fail to get back up.

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• One factor that determines every case of success is persistence and the idea that you are never defeated; no matter what situation you are dealt, you must adapt and never retreat, for surrender is the relinquishing of success.
• It is impossible to go anywhere without reaching at least one obstacle; what filters you out from the rest is what you do to use those obstacles to your advantage.
• You must clearly examine every failure and try to understand why it happened.
• salvage something from every setback.
  • Look at every setback and turn it into a victory but analyzing it and improving yourself.
  • Consistently do a review as to why things didn't go your way.
• You can also always look at every failure or setback and reframe it to create an advantage out of it.
  • "My sickness made me take a hard look at improving my overall health."
  • "Being licked is valuable if we learn from it."

Take an Objective Stance on Yourself

• Humans are quick to blame others for setbacks.
• You must condition yourself to take an objective, third party stance on your behavior and really analyze it.
• You must take action to correct.
• You have nothing to gain from proving that someone else is wrong and everything to gain from figuring out why you messed up and improving.
  • View your mistakes as "here's another way to make me a bigger winner"
• Never take the "that's the way the ball bounces approach".
  • The idea that some things just happen does not at all help you improve for the future.
  • And the ball bouncing is determined by physics, not random occurrence.
• STOP blaming luck.

Combine Persistence with Experimentation

• You need persistence and hard work; but that's not all. You can't keep doing the same thing over and over again without changing anything and expect that to work out.
  • You must constantly take an objective view and try to improve. That is the only way.
  • Sometimes you need to just change things up to see if they work.
• If you aren't getting results, try a new approach.

1. Tell yourself, there is a way.ˆ
   1. If you stay down and remain beaten, you will never get out of your rut.
   2. If you believe that something is possible, you will find a way.