Success or Failure ?

"The Danish physicist Niels Bohr once said "an expert is simply someone who has made all the mistakes there are to make in a narrow field."

The more we come to understand about the way we learn, the more Bohr's statement holds true. Our brains need us to make prediction errors in order to correct, amend and improve our performance. In short, improvement comes through failure. "

 Megan McArdle, author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success      by BIG THINK EDITORS FEBRUARY 21, 2014, 12:00AM

Most businesses fail. Most products fail. Most relationships fail. Derek Jeter, one of the greatest baseball players of his generation, failed to get a hit 68.8 percent of the time. 

How is it that humans have been such a successful species if our endeavors are so defined by failure?

Luckily for us, we are incredibly resilient. 

To stick with the baseball analogy, everybody strikes out. The key is to maintain your composure, step back up to the plate the next time at bat and hit a home run. As Bill Gates, unquestionably one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs has said, "it’s fine to celebrate success, but more important are the lessons of failure." In the startup world, entrepreneurs are taught to fail quickly, learn and move on.
We all get advice, but it’s life experience and usually failure that teaches us the bigger lessons."

And even better, we CAN learn from other peoples failure, we do not actually have to do it all ourselves..