In our everyday business lives we all experience moments of failure and rejection. Some people take these negative experiences personally, allowing the resulting anxieties to sap their initiatives and make them cautious and defensive. Successful people, however, look at failure differently than anyone else! They see it as an opportunity for learning, a springboard to creativity, and a chance to test new ideas. In fact, the way we choose to handle failure is a greater predictor of future success than any other single factor - including talent, drive, and hard work!The operative word here is "choose."Just because you've been anxious, defensive, and disheartened in the face of failure doesn't mean you have to remain that way, says motivational expert Art Mortell. A positive response to failure - one that emphasizes the qualities of resilience, personal growth, and, believe it or not, humor - can be learned. And Art Mortell should know. As one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the country, he's taught his unique methods to such major firms as IBM, Merrill Lynch, Prudential Securities, and Price Waterhouse. Now in this, the most important business book you will ever read, he reveals his proven prescriptions for using failure and rejection as stepping stones to future success. Discover how to change your perception of reality as a way of thriving on failure and assuring your success, how to recover swiftly from professional setbacks and become more objective, how to be amused by rejection and capitalize on negative feedback, how to raise your self-image and unleash the power of your own motivation, how to use anxiety to identify your vulnerabilities and replace them with new resiliencies, how to become risk-oriented and excel without risking burn-out, how to eliminate the 10 negative addictions most often used when coping with stress, how to convert potentially paralyzing anxiety into added energy that assures creative results, and much more! Read Less