New Delhi, April 27 -- This comes from a woman who rebuilt herself publicly more than once. She launched a music career that the industry almost buried before it began. She was dropped, doubted, and written off at multiple points.

Then she became one of the best-selling artists in recorded history. Then she built a billion-dollar beauty empire on top of that.

The quote has two clauses. Each one reframes the same event completely. Together, they describe a mental discipline that most people talk about but very few actually practice. The difference between the two is not what happens to you. It is what you decide the event means.

The first clause is a refusal. Rihanna is not saying failure does not hurt. She is saying she will not allow ...