http://www.dominica-weekly.com/personal-development-for-smart-people/how-do-you-accepting-losing/ Ramblings From The Nature Paradise of Dominica Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:19:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/personal-development-for-smart-people/how-do-you-accepting-losing/#comment-11372 Rachel S Fri, 16 May 2008 18:44:58 +0000 http://www.dominica-weekly.com/?p=1430#comment-11372 I am a perfectionist, so I make a point of minimizing the occasions on which I might be wrong by studying and researching fully. If not given that opportunity, I will declare that I do not know something rather than guess and it and risk being wrong. So on the occasions that I do fail, or lose, or make a mistake, I will acknowledge it immediately. And it will stick with me. I will remember it, so I do not repeat it. (Case in point - I remember the word - and its correct spelling - that lost me a shot at the state competition in the fourth-grade spelling bee.) I am a perfectionist, so I make a point of minimizing the occasions on which I might be wrong by studying and researching fully. If not given that opportunity, I will declare that I do not know something rather than guess and it and risk being wrong. So on the occasions that I do fail, or lose, or make a mistake, I will acknowledge it immediately. And it will stick with me. I will remember it, so I do not repeat it. (Case in point - I remember the word - and its correct spelling - that lost me a shot at the state competition in the fourth-grade spelling bee.)

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