It's Harder to Lose as a "Winner"

Losing sucks, but delusion is worse

What happened to swallowing your words and taking the loss? Besides Instagram quotes in pictures, do people know how to do this anymore? It seems like the ordinary person takes loss better than those who have tasted victory frequently and quickly.

However, I find it harder to find public failures admitted and not swept under the rug. We've built ourselves to be just winners socially, and it's unrealistic.

It's funny because the old man screams at the "everybody gets a trophy" statement. However, it's built into many "winner" mentality types in business, media, athletics, etc.

What the fuck happened to "taking a L," as the kiddos say.

I've lost in every way imaginable. At work, I've broken things and caused outages. I've failed interviews when I thought I did well. I've lost MMA fights and wrestling/grappling matches in sports—more of these failures than I care to admit.

I've rarely come out on top of many things. I recently interviewed for a new job and failed roughly ten interviews (all stages) before getting two offers.

Some might say, "That's too many failures; consider something else". And this blog is dedicated to the fucking moronic Redditors. Who are too quick to boast…