Weapons of warfare differ between these two subjects of Warfare and Politics the wounds are sustained the pain is intense the memory of everything that went wrong or right is ingrained, PTSD they call it, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
The potential for failure in either of these is enormous, the weight of responsibility strong enough to make the most hardened warrior cry or the shoe in candidate curse.
How well do you handle mental or physical pain?
If all you focus on is how much it hurts you the healing process hasn't even started yet, "you're alive, you survived, get up inspite of the extra effort it might take and do it again, do it until you get it right and can say, yeah right, I have that T-shirt and help the next person find their next day.