Failing productively
- Recognize that failing better is not easy in the present culture. Pay attention to the failures - not to correct them, but because they make you go back and reconsider your long-held views.
- Recognize the intrinsic value beyond just correction. There is no way to predict which way a failure will turn out.
Failure is data. Failures lead to a fundamental change in the way we think about future experiments.
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