Many scientists say that science is about a pragmatic approach to putting pieces into a puzzle, and the more pieces you add, the more successful you are.
But this approach is driving science into a corner. We can't keep up with the exponentially expanding literature of ever narrower details. This approach is turning scientists more and more into a secret society of oddballs, tolerated because once in a while, some gadget or cure drops emerge out of the otherwise impenetrable machinery. This process is doomed to run out of steam, or bore us all to death.
The old saying goes, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." But how many tries should you attempt before you throw in the towel and admit defeat? A new study from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management entitled " Quantifying dynamics of failure across science, startups, and security " found that how you fail (and try, try again) determines if you'll eventually succeed.
In our Success obsessed society, failure is rampant, as every successful person has a string of past failures, and may have been a loser before eventually finding success.
The person who eventually succeeds after failing is the one who is using failure to learn, as a feedback mechanism, and applying those lessons in his future decisions.
Recently, I wrote a piece about how to commit to the things you start. In it, I argued that most people are spectacularly bad at committing to things which don't have a culturally or socially-enforced system of accountability. This is unfortunate, because being successful in life inevitably depends on either doing things that weren't mandatory ...
A goal level, which is big-picture and abstract. It has just enough detail to inspire, but not so much that you're stuck pursuing things that don’t matter when conditions change.
Underneath that, have projects: these tend to be short-to-medium term efforts you think will help realize the larger goal.
The flexibility of the system comes once one leg of a short-term commitment has ended. This provides an opportunity for pivoting and redirecting.
All of us dream of success and of reaching great heights. But have any of us dreamt of failure? Or how failure shapes us in a way to achieve success? A majority of us would answer with a "NO". No one in their right minds would want to fail.
At some point in life, all of us have failed. It could be something as simple as not getting through a driving licence test or something as big as losing in an international competition.
Failure Strengthens You. Failure can tear you down but it also builds you to be a stronger person.
Failure Gives You a Sense of Direction. You get a sense of clarity on everywhere you have gone wrong and how to take a better path to reach where you want to be.
Failure Teaches You to Value all the right things in order to succeed.
Failure Gets Rid Of Fear. Once you are accustomed to failing you have nothing left to fear anymore.
Failure is an Opportunity. It shows us everywhere we might have gone wrong and gives us the opportunity to correct it.
Failure is an Experience and could give us a deeper understanding of life and alter the way we look at everything that happens around us.
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