1. Failure of Tactics - the HOW mistakes: failure to execute on a good plan and a clear vision.
2. Failure of Strategy - the WHAT mistakes: when you follow a strategy that fails to deliver the results you want.
3. Failure of Vision

It's not just young scientists who have become failure-averse. As you move on in your career and have to obtain grant support, you naturally highlight the successes and propose experiments that will continue to produce results. The lab becomes a kind of money machine.

Although these th...

Scientists treat failure as a data point. It’s also how they treat positive results. Data points eventually lead to an answer.

Treat your failures as data points that steer you toward the correct answers.