Which failure taught you the most? What did you learn from it?

Which failure taught you the most? What did you learn from it?
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I failed to get into med school – in some ways I sabotaged myself, in others my grades or what have you weren’t good enough. By the time I found out, I was no longer interested in becoming a physician but I learned, after many years of obsessing about medical school, that a person can waste a lot of their life focused on something they only superficially want or on something everyone expected of them.
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