How to overcome setbacks

Overcoming a loss requires discipline — and preparation.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 a.m. February 8, 2019
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Alex Sink says overcoming setbacks requires an ability to pivot to a new phase of your life.
Alex Sink says overcoming setbacks requires an ability to pivot to a new phase of your life.
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Alex Sink has a bathtub full of life and career successes: a 26-year career at the highest levels of Bank of America, including overseeing the Florida market; elected the state's chief financial officer; numerous community and philanthropic boards; and mom of two now-productive adults.

But it’s a highly public non-success  — losing the 2010 Florida gubernatorial race to Rick Scott by some 60,000 votes, or 1% — that Sink lives with every day.

 

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