That breakup. That failed startup. That friendship that ended. That job you lost. Stop calling them a waste of time. Every single one of them taught you something. What to tolerate. What to avoid. Who to trust. How to protect your energy. Sometimes growth doesn’t feel like progress. Sometimes it feels like pain. But if it didn’t give you what you wanted, it taught you what you don’t want. And that’s just as valuable.

It wasn’t a loss. It was a lesson.