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Why reframing failure does not always help

My startup failed and everyone keeps telling me it was a learning experience but I just feel like I wasted three years of my life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure to extract meaning from loss can invalidate the natural process of grieving what was lost.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

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