Despite the embarrassment, embrace failure as path to your success

I spend a fair amount of my workday listening to people talk about their failures and mistakes. As a career counselor, I work with people who are trying to make sense of why they were let go or why their careers aren’t progressing as planned. The stories range anywhere from human error to miniature disaster to “I cannot believe I did that!”

Clients have talked about losing their cool with an important customer and ultimately losing a key account, blurting out a curse word during an important interview, making an accounting error that cost the company a sizeable sum, and sending…