# Self-Pity is Poison

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Podcast: [Project Swagger with Robin Arzón](https://stenobird.com/podcast/project-swagger-with-robin-arz-n-7706503)
Published: 2026-04-07T08:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

If you’re ambitious, you will experience moments of failure. Today, I share the eight concrete steps I rely on to resist the spiral of self-pity and recover from failure. These are steps I developed after a professional setback that stayed with me for years. Plus: how to maintain discipline during a plateau, the difference between a pivot and a failure, and my go-to tricks to level up batch-prepped veggies and proteins. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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