Nonattachment enables resilience in the face of failure.

Evidence

Striving is fine, as long as it’s tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. … When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome—so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1068

Categorization

• XREF: This connects to the concept of embracing failure in growth and resilience. — connects to: Mindfulness creates resilience against impulse reactions. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1134; Merging striving with nonattachment could inspire new approaches to personal goal-setting. — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1085; Awareness of our limitations is what saves us from despair over them — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 795 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1068

Broader Connections

• Mindfulness creates resilience against impulse reactions. #corroborates (0.75) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1134
• Merging striving with nonattachment could inspire new approaches to personal goal-setting. #expands (0.65) — Dan Harris, 10 percent Happier, 1085