"I never lose. I either win or learn."

This quote attributed to Mandela changed the way I look at my setbacks. For a long time, I lived my failures as definitive judgments on my worth: a failed project, a lost client, a missed decision left me with that bitter taste of defeat. Then I understood that this binary winner/loser reading was itself a trap. Every time a project doesn't turn out as planned, I now ask myself a simple question: what am I taking away from it? A skill, a lesson, an insight, a relationship, a better understanding of myself? When I look back, I realize that my greatest learnings were almost all born from my worst moments. This quote has become my compass in difficult times: as long as I am learning, I have lost nothing. I hope it accompanies you through your own storms.