Medusa on a platter

Oscar Wilde in his play about Salome and John the Baptist explored how love, lust and desire can easily turn to deep resentment

It’s always fox and grapes with a jilted loved. I never wanted it in the first place. Nah! I think not. Rejection and failure are both dreaded situations. And justifiably so. But I chose to see the good and not the bad in both. Rejection and failure are motivating forces. Rejection makes us sharpen existing skills and acquire new ones that position us for the next opportunity. And failure teaches us mastery. There is no learning without failure. Those wrong answers on practices quizzes and tests are a testament to this fact.

There cannot be success without failure. There cannot be acceptance or progress without rejection.

So I implore do not fear or avoid failure and rejection. Embrace it. You would be the better for it.