One's emotional intelligence, or emotional maturity, is one's ability to govern one's emotions rather than allowing one's emotions to dictate one's reactions, responses, demeanor, or attitude. Everyone handles the stress and disappointment of setbacks differently. Setbacks can feel exaggerated working in the medical field.

Share the emotional impact of your example and explain how you coped with it and governed those emotions. Demonstrate that you don't allow your emotions to set you back further than the setback itself. It's important to observe and recognize the situational setback for what it was, analyze it, learn from it, and take what you've learned from the setback to improve your performance by moving forward. When approaching any personal setbacks or failures this way, you turn them into your next success story. Every hard-learned lesson is a future success hard-gained.