> You learn to ignore the excuse and move on (...) That's actually a great attitude in almost everything in life: recognize that some things are best modeled a

> You learn to ignore the excuse and move on (...) That's actually a great attitude in almost everything in life: recognize that some things are best modeled as a random variable, and if you fail there might not be a causal explanation and you just have to keep trying. The downside is that you might be given valuable information (feedback) and you might dismiss it as noise. So it's a real skill telling signal from noise.