Successfully managing your career and life requires learning to deal with failure

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Arthur C. Brooks, who teaches happiness from a scientific perspective at the Harvard Business School, says your life is the most important management task you will ever undertake.

“If you treat your life the way a great entrepreneur treats an exciting start-up enterprise, your life will be happier, more meaningful and more successful than it otherwise would be,” he writes in The Happiness Files , a collection of essays written for The Atlantic.

That means taking and managing appropriate risks in an effort to build a life of great rewards. Those rewards are not money, power, pleasure, fame or prestige. It should be happiness – love, enjoyment, sat