LIFE 108 words
Reframe a Career Setback as Useful Information
You did not get the promotion, the contract fell through, or the job you wanted went to someone else. The instinct is to explain why you failed. This reframes the outcome as information: what it reveals about fit rather than capability, what it makes possible, and one move to make in the next two weeks before the setback becomes a story you tell about yourself.
Reframe the career setback described below so it reads as information about the path rather than evidence of failure.
For the setback, provide:
1. What the situation reveals about fit between the person and the role, organisation, or timing (not about the person's capability)
2. The question this outcome is most usefully asking
3. What this makes possible that would not have been possible if it had gone differently
4. The one thing to do in the next two weeks that converts the setback into forward motion
One concrete sentence for each item. No empty reassurance. No suggestion that everything happens for a reason.
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