Acharya Prashant addresses the issue of spiraling into negativity after a mistake or failure. He explains that the conclusion, "I will fail again," is perfectly logical under one condition: the refusal to change. If you repeat what you did last time, you will fail again. If the task remains the same and you remain what you were, the result will also remain what it was. For the result to change, something must change. Since the weight of the task hasn't reduced, the only thing that can change is your approach, your self-assessment, the effort you put in, and the attention you give it. The speaker identifies the ego as the entity that does not want to change. The ego wants better results, but it does not want to change itself. To truly change your actions, you have to change who you are. The ego, wanting to defend and preserve itself, looks at a past failure and correctly concludes it will fail again because it has no intention of changing. This self-preservation, in some moments, is revealed to be self-destruction. The solution lies in being prepared to change. Nothing is beyond you if you are willing to change; it is not that things are too much, but that we make ourselves too little in front of them. You are not a fixed entity; you have a choice about who you want to be internally. Challenges only appear large when you choose to be small. Vedanta is a philosophy of great empowerment that teaches this fundamental choice. You can choose to be anything, and the pinnacle of all choices is to choose to be absolutely nothing, because then you can afford to be anything as per the requirement of the great challenge. When you look at your failures, you must ask what it was within you that failed the moment. You must identify the "loser within" and discard it. By doing this, every failure becomes a stepping stone and an opportunity to know yourself and improve. However, the project you take up must be worthy of your love. It must be so tremendously lovable that you cannot drop it, despite all the failures. If the project is not important enough, instead of dropping your weaknesses, you will drop the project itself. When the project is truly lovable, the only option left is to drop the weaknesses.