When interviewing a while back, I was asked to reflect on my failures. Only then did I realize that failure was not in my mental model of my experiences. I had

When interviewing a while back, I was asked to reflect on my failures. Only then did I realize that failure was not in my mental model of my experiences. I had a hard time thinking of a "failure". It's not that I had never had any, it's just that I had been so accustomed to the idea of thinking of them as learning experiences rather than failures. I wouldn't say I'm the most accomplished person by any means, but I certainly have a tried-and-true way of getting through so-called "failures", and part of that has to do with not even including failure in my vocabulary of my experience.