As usual, an idea adopted by our culture (you learn more from failure) to counter a still worse idea (never fail!) has been taken too far (you learn nothing from success).
Details, nuance, and subtlety matters. The stories we hear from our culture are almost always presented as black-and-white, because the gentler ideas won't cut through the noise. But it's the more complicated notions that are almost always closer to the truth.
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As usual, an idea adopted by our culture (you learn more from failure) to counter a still worse idea (never fail!) has been taken too far (you learn nothing from success).
Details, nuance, and subtlety matters. The stories we hear from our culture are almost always presented as black-and-white, because the gentler ideas won't cut through the noise. But it's the more complicated notions that are almost always closer to the truth.