Effect of repeated failures on the self

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Questioner: Sir, in this age of competition, sometimes we try very hard for various types of examinations. And sometimes — and many times — it is possible that we remain very close but we end up at a failure side. If it keeps continuing, it’s not that we don’t want, we want that, but doesn’t that regular failure…