> It's like saying that having abusive parents make you a strong person. Completely bullshit. I don't get this analogy at all. Failure falls on a pretty broad

> It's like saying that having abusive parents make you a strong person. Completely bullshit. I don't get this analogy at all. Failure falls on a pretty broad spectrum, from minor setbacks to complete catastrophes. IME, failures across a wide center of that spectrum are really valuable (if you choose to learn from them), with the left being not very useful, and the right being disastrous. Ideally, one doesn't take so much risk that their failures fall on the right. Personally, I feel like most of my wins today are consequences of my past failures.