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Too many comments here are a re-phrase of "learn from your failure" quote. I hate to sound too negative here, but people learn from their success a whole lot th
by NadaAldahleh 15y ago
Too many comments here are a re-phrase of "learn from your failure" quote. I hate to sound too negative here, but people learn from their success a whole lot than they learn from their failure. It sounds like something we just tell ourselves after we've failed to make ourselves feel better.
Though I agree that keep trying (and obviously failing many times along the way) is often necessary to get to where you want to go.
- dmvaldman 15y agoReally? I disagree, though exaggerated, here's another quote, from the end of Little Miss Sunshine, about Proust: "...French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing."
- gruseom 15y agoI'm afraid you've missed the point, which is about the psychology of failing 99% of the time. That's not, like, a little hard. It is excruciating. We use words like "persistence" or "learn from your failures" so much that we think we know what they mean; so much, in fact, that they become boring. That confuses repetition with understanding. What's valuable about the OP (and the comments are just reflecting this) is that he put into words a tiny bit of that experience in a way that isn't just repetitive.