Reality Check

Time for a reality check. You're going to have some setbacks. Time for a reality check of that reality check. "Setbacks" is just a nice word for "failures."
When confronted with failure, you will undoubtably tell yourself something like, "You learn more from failure than you do from success." The next time you fail, you will probably say to yourself again, "You learn more from failure than you do from success." By the third time you fail, you may start to think, "Why am I failing so often if I am supposedly learning so much from these failures?" Most likely, that will be just a passing thought, and you will seek solace in your old stand-by, "You learn more from failure than you do from success" or some version thereof, like, "Failure is a better teacher than success" or "Show me a man who is a success, and I'll show you a man who has failed a dozen times."
That last one is good for your next nine failures. After which you may begin to wonder whether telling yourself this sort of thing over and over is really getting you anywhere.

More of this sort of stuff from Al Franken site here…