The above title seems to be a little illogical doesn’t it?
Learning from failures can boost your self-esteem once you realise that you can rebound from these tough challenges.
Additionally you learn valuable skills that can aid you in overcoming future tough challenges more easily.
Embracing Challenges
Virtually everyone faces challenges in life; no one has it easy all the time, and that means there will be things in your life that will not go as planned.
At times, it will seem that the whole world is against you and nothing goes in your favour; nothing turns out as planned.
Times like these are likely to bring down your self-esteem. They make you question whether you are able to do high-quality work, achieve your goals, etc.
However, it’s at times like these that you need to reflect back upon past failures.
Recognise that you have gone through challenging periods before and have the capability and skill set needed to go through them again and be able to come out stronger than ever before.
That’s the other key element to learn when reflecting on your past failures.
Learn From Your Failures
Learning from your failures so that you don’t make the same or similar mistakes in the future. When you make a mistake, it’s not the end of the world.
To the contrary, you have an opportunity to learn what you did wrong or not as well as you could have… and to learn how to do the situation better if the same or similar situation arises again.
Past mistakes will show weaknesses in your skillset that you can strengthen over time. Learning from the experience will gain insight into what you can do better.
Learn What You Can Do Better
By learning what you can do better, you'll feel more confident in handling the same or similar situations in the future. In turn this can boost your self-esteem.
So don’t look upon making a mistake as the end of the world.
Don't allow it to bring down your self-esteem either.
Everyone makes mistakes. The key is learning from those mistakes so that you don’t make the same or similar ones in the future. You'll improve your skill set so that you can handle the same or similar situations with more confidence and ability in the future.
Ultimately...
This will allow yourself to gain more self-esteem through analysing and learning from your past mistakes so that you make fewer mistakes and achieve more in the future.