You know that frustrating feeling when you try your best but you don’t succeed? When you get what you want, but not what you need?
Alright, I’ll stop quoting Chris Martin. But we’ve all been through this, right?
There are high chances that you’re going through it right now. Social pressure, expectations versus reality, dreams taking time to manifest…

These are hard times for dreamers.

The Fabulous Destiny of Amélie Poulain (2001)

To fail better means to fully embrace the meaning of failure. It means to be able to fall and to get up. 
The biggest stories of success couldn’t happen if there wasn’t a failure. As Marcel Proust said, there is no easy success, nor definitive failure.

There is no reason to fear the F word. Elvis Presley failed his music classes, Picasso had to leave his art school, J.K. Rowling and Neil Gaiman believed they were a failure in their early twenties…

At some point, everyone fails. It takes courage to bounce back.  

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finish the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

J.K. Rowling

The F word has no power as long as you learn from your experience and use it as a tool to improve.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

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