If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to profit by defeat. Every success I know has been (36) because the person was able to (37) defeat and actually (38) by it in his next (39) . Confuse defeat with failure, and you are (40) indeed to failure. For it isn’t defeat that makes you fail: it is your own (41) to see in defeat the (42) and encouragement to success.
Defeats are nothing to be (43) of. (44) . But defeat is a dead loss unless you do face it, analyze it and learn why you are defeated. (45) . If you let a baby grasp a rod and try to pull it away, he will cling more and more tightly until his whole weight is suspended. It is the same reaction which should give you new and greater strength every time you are defeated. (46)
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If you make the best of the power which defeat gives, you ca......