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I'm Cody Guff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why successful people should reveal their failures.

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Let's set us fast in curiosity. Success is a double-edged sword.

Hard work can come with amazing benefits like more pay,

more responsibility, and more stability,

but it can also carry jealousy, competition, and resentment, right along with it.

So how do you keep the scales tipped toward the positive?

Well, according to new research from Harvard Business School, you can do it by talking more about your failures.

This tip might sound counterintuitive. Isn't it important to talk up your achievements?

Don't you want people to know you're successful?

Why would you ever highlight your failures, right?

Well, the thing is, when successful people only talk about their success,

they come off is egotistical.

And that can stir up what the Harvard Business School researchers call malicious envy.

That's the kind of destructive envy that makes people want to harm the successful person.

According to the researchers, if you're really successful,

then it's likely that everybody already knows about your achievements.

It's more interesting and inspiring for people to learn about your mistakes.

And that makes sense, right?

I mean, when you reveal both your successes and your failures,

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