Five life lessons from Lionel Messi

Barcelona v Athletic Club - Spanish Super Cup: Second Leg
The greatest ever to play the game.

#3: Learning to accept failures

FC Barcelona v RC Deportivo La Coruna - La Liga
Leo knows how to handle failures.
Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

How terrible must it have been for Messi to lose to underdogs Chelsea in the Champions League in 2012? He had the chance to turn the game in Barca's favour with a penalty, and yet he missed it.

But, that's what life is all about. Failure is the stepping stone towards success. One can never enjoy being successful if he has never failed. And it's not the failures that make a difference. But, it is how you fall and still manage to get back up that matters. When the biggest star of the generation can accept this fact, I see no reason why we can't.

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