This year's Olympic games began with two back-to-back mishaps for American Mikaela Shiffrin, widely considered one of the world's top alpine skiers. The two-time gold medalist did not finish either her giant slalom or slalom runs, and showed her devastation by sitting on the hill, with her head in her lap, for several minutes.
Though the rest of us perhaps can't relate to such high-profile failure, we all regularly make mistakes, big and small, at work, at home, and in our community.
Dr. Amit Sood, who earned the moniker the "Happiness Doctor" at Mayo Clinic and now leads the Rochester-based Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing,offers advice on how to gracefully take responsibility for our blunders. He suggests how to reflect on mistakes and to incorporate what we've learned as we move forward. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.)
