Treating Failure Like a Scientist

“When a scientist runs an experiment, there are all sorts of results that could happen. Some results are positive and some are negative, but all of them are data points. Each result is a piece of data that can ultimately lead to an answer. And that’s exactly how a scientist treats failure: as ...

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.

3. Expand with ideas

Let's say you're working with something concrete—an interesting finding from your experience, data from an experiment you tried, or a trend in customer feedback or behaviour. You can add your own thoughts and ideas to the concrete tidbit you've got to c...