skills/writing-strategy/references/failure_overcome_success.md

# Failure → Overcome → Success / 실패 → 극복 → 성공 사례

- English name: Failure → Overcome → Success
- Korean name: 실패 → 극복 → 성공 사례
- Selection category: narrative
- Use when: Use when failure, recovery, and success form the emotional core.
- Avoid when: Avoid when failure cannot be described honestly.

## Writing Pattern

**Use this fixed three-step structure**

- Failure
  - Describe the failed project, situation, or choice concretely.
  - Be candid about causes, emotions, and losses experienced then.
- Overcome
  - Show how you rose again—actions, strategies, and mindset shifts.
  - Include help received, attitude changes, or new approaches.
- Success
  - Present outcomes after overcoming—figures, evaluations, and external reactions.
  - Focus on insight and impact by contrasting with the failure—not mere boasting.

## Example Writing Outline

1. **Launch Failure — Only 10 Users**: We released a beta, but response was tepid and we received almost no feedback. (Failure)
2. **Redefining the Target Customer**: The problem wasn’t features—it was a mismatch with customer needs. We redesigned personas and pivoted focus. (Overcome)
3. **2,000 Users and Seed Investment**: Three months after clarifying the core customer, growth reversed and we secured our first angel investment. (Success)

## Writing Notes

- Don’t avoid or soften the failure; describe it concretely. Emotion helps build empathy.
- In Overcome, focus on lessons learned and the turning point—not just the fact of change.
- In Success, avoid listing wins—highlight the power of the process and the value of change.
- Imply the message: “Failure teaches → Overcoming starts transformation → Success proves growth.”