You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Maya Angelou

Setbacks will come, we won’t win every race we run but being defeated is not about whether you win or lose, it’s about your mental state in the face of adversity. To be defeated means that you’ve internalized the loss and part of you has given up. Don’t let it happen! You can suffer the loss but don’t be defeated, learn from the set-back and come back stronger than before.