Goal of This Episode:

You will learn that failure can be a good learning experience that will help you develop your English skills if you learn how to respond to that failure correctly. 

You will learn 3 things you can do to deal with and reframe failure to position you for success.

How Failure Frames You:

If left alone, failure leads you places. Can you think of a few places where, if you allow it to, failure will take you? 

• To quit
• To not take risks anymore. To protect yourself, you stop using English so you don't face embarrassment again.

In short: it stops or severely limits your progress in English. 

How You Should Reframe Failure

Reframe, according to the Oxford dictionary, means:

to change the way something is expressed or considered:

(https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/reframe)

Instead of allowing failure to drive you to give up on your English, or instead of allowing failure to keep you cautious, let's think about some different ways to look at it....in other words, let's reframe failure to make it work for us.- here are 3 ways you can do that:

Three Strategies to Help You Deal with and Reframe Failure  Open Journal of Social Sciences by Ruihong Huang. The article points out some important strategies to help you move past failure:

Acknowledge Your Failure 

But don't live in it. According to an Edutopia article I read by Rusul Alrubail, you should fully express how frustrated, embarrassed, upset you feel, but give yourself a time limit as to how long you're allowed to sit there with it. When that time is up, move on. Move on by picking another activity to do, even if it's not in English, to get your mind off of what happened. As you do, you'll noticed that your negative emotions will begin to quiet down.

Reflect On Your Failure.

According to an Edutopia article I read by Rusul Alrubail, take time to consider what you can learn from what happened and what went wrong. What went right? What can you do to have a better outcome next time? Take some time to think about it, and also take some time to process what happened. 

Acknowledge Your Failure 

But don't live in it. According to an Edutopia article I read by Rusul Alrubail, you should fully express how frustrated, embarrassed, upset you feel, but give yourself a time limit as to how long you're allowed to sit there with it. When that time is up, move on. Move on by picking another activity to do, even if it's not in English, to get your mind off of what happened. As you do, you'll noticed that your negative emotions will begin to quiet down

Use the Power Of 'Alternative Experience.' 

•  Open Journal of Social Sciences by Ruihong Huang.  

The article smartly points to the value of taking some time to watch and learn from others who have attained what you're trying to attain. What can you learn from their examples? What can you learn from their failures? Mentors have great things to share and teach us if we take the time to connect with them or follow them. (They don't even need to know you are following!)

My previous podcast episode with Masha Honcharova is a great example of this, by the way. She openly shared some of her journey with us. You can learn a great deal from what she has experienced and shared.

https://celpipsuccess.com/podcast/reframefailure

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