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The Art of the Comeback

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You’ve got this. What’s ‘this’? It’s anything you’re shooting for that other people said couldn’t happen, or you doubted you could do. It’s your comeback. “A comeback is when a person or team accomplishes something that they probably shouldn’t, such as a win after facing a deficit or a disadvantage or when their trajectory was on a downward slope,” explains Gregory Chertok, a sports psychology consultant. That might mean selling a book proposal after being rejected dozens of times, going back to uni to study something totally different, starting another business after closing your first or bouncing back postdivorce. It’s time to engineer your own

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