You set yourself a task. You work hard towards it. And it all goes wrong. You fail. How do you feel about that? How will that affect your future efforts?
Of course, all of us have “been there”: those who say they have never suffered a setback or failure are either lying, or have never tried to do anything worthwhile!
And of course, how we react to setbacks and failures will depend on many things: how much the particular goal in question mattered, for instance; or how public our failure was, and so forth.
Generally, the impact of success or failure on future behaviour is discussed in relation to the impact on self-esteem: does failure damage self-esteem in destructive ways? How does self-esteem level prior to failure mediate that effect?
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