Veterinary Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - Being Optimistic About Mistakes

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. Stephen King said that and I agree – do you?

When you try to do something and it doesn’t turn out quite like you planned, what’s your usual feeling? Do you beat yourself up? Try to cover the failure up? Or do you find a way to see the problem more clearly so you can solve it more easily next time?

When you can teach yourself to be optimistic in the face of failure, you are teaching yourself the secret to resilience. Sure, you’re going to try new things and some will go well and some won’t. The ones that go well help you feel confident – the ones that don’t can also help you feel confident, when you remember to mine the failure for the lessons it can teach you. Because every failure has at least one powerful lesson in it, and it's one you can only see when you’re looking at it with hopeful, optimistic eyes. 

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