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But that airline pilot has been failing on a regular basis for years. He learned to fly in a little single engine plane, and routinely recovered it from stalls
by jasonkester 16y ago
But that airline pilot has been failing on a regular basis for years.
He learned to fly in a little single engine plane, and routinely recovered it from stalls and even spins. His instructor would have him close his eyes, then throw the plane out of balance and have him attempt to correct it by feel (and he'd often fail to do so). He's crashed that very jet you're riding in dozens or even hundreds of times in the simulator. He's even recovered a real one from a stall during his certification.
The only reason he's good enough to be trusted to fly with you in the back is because he's been training to failure all those years.
- mkr-hn 16y agoI wonder how many times Chesley Sullenberger had to break a simulated plane in half before he could land a real one in the Hudson River.
- bena 16y agoNot the point. Even if he never trained for that specific instance before, he was ready for failure. When things went wrong, he didn't lose his cool or panic. He was ready for things to go wrong even if he wasn't expecting it. By failing all of the time during training, he conditioned himself to not be upset about failure.
- mkr-hn 16y agoI was agreeing by offering a real example of frequent failure leading to success.
- ecaradec 16y agoActually he failed, we could say that he crashed the plane into the Hudson River. It's a matter of measure. If he ever do it again, he might do even better ;). I think that we improve continuously from failure into something that looks more and more like success. Success is very relative to what you are able to accomplish at a time. If failing teach you something, might be it's a success ?
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- mkr-hn 16y agoIt's safer to think of success as a step in a potentially endless process. Microsoft (as an example) treated IE6 as an end, and it cost them substantial market share while they tried to catch up to the new entrant.