Yes. People underestimate how one learns through failure.... And how if one uses failure as a stepping stone as one has to learn what does not work to find things that work, one eventually starts a journey to success! The ones who succeed straight away may not fully understand any given subject as thoroughly as those who have had failures along their way, as failure is not the end! Failures are the stepping stones to success!
What does not work, is if one tries a certain method and it fails, and one keep repeating this method with the same results without altering anything... That fails. But if one keeps trying a different approach and gain the experiences of that different approach and compare it to the past approaches, one learns what elements work and what don't... And this knowledge is more important to a continued success at whatever it is one is doing, as success itself... As one learns methods and structures to repeat the success which one would not find if one had success straight away.
There is a lot of underestimation of the value of failure and failing, as we learn more through trial and error along the journey than with the end product we are trying to achieve.
I remember hearing a joke where a young new apprentice engineer was asked by his boss to make him a hammer. The apprentice thought he would get the better of the old man and nipped out in his lunchbreak and bought a hammer. The boss admired it and said "Good! Now make me thirty more!"
Now if the apprentice had gone through theproper stage of learning and percevered until heeventually taught himself how to make a decent hammer, then making thirty more would not be a problem!
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