Hello and welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of last and

well-being.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

Even in the course of a pretty challenging life, most people have many opportunities to

experience success.

Have good days, pick up small wins, and generally feel like they're on the right track.

Or at least that they've given things their best shot.

And even in the course of a pretty good life, most people experience many small defeats.

This can include everything from being a bit light to an obligation with a friend,

flubbing a worker's school assignment, or even knowing that you'd like someone who

maybe doesn't reciprocate your feelings.

It can also scale up to big picture experiences where somebody looks around at their life

as a whole and goes, wow, this just isn't what I had in mind.

One of the most important skills we can develop is the ability to deal with disappointment

and cope with failures big and small.

That's where we're going to be focusing on today and to help us do that.

I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick as a clinical psychologist, a best-selling

author, and he's also my dad.

So dad, I took a look through our episode archives and I was actually kind of shocked

that we've never focused explicitly on this topic before, obviously an enormous failure.

A real miss on our part.

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