Success or Failure

I was listening to something on the radio yesterday, and they were discussing what they thought meant 'success.'

A question asked was - "Do you think we learn more by success, or failure?"

I found that quite difficult to answer.
What do you think?

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I thought we learned more from our mistakes?

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Learn more about what Mupsy?
From a running point of view, I think success and failure can contribute to a better performance next time. I would consider a faster marathon time to be a success...

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What mistakes Arty?
No such thing as mistakes! Just miscalculations....

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I read somewhere that motivation is "the homeostatic imbalance between the ego and the id"...you can make of that what you will but I translate it to a simplistic "motivation is the slope between where you are and where you want to be".

Suspect that it's feasable to create a similar rule of thumb involving "success" and "failure". Look forward to reading your suggestions.

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That is my feeling too, I tend to think you don't learn much from your successes other than they are the result of many missteps or trial and error.

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I am, more and more, convinced that success is all about luck (with a little nous thrown in - otherwise we wouldn't be able to use the luck!)

If you're born into a good family, with the chance for good schooling, good jobs, good medical, high safety standards, that's where you get the big "Success" started.

If you are born into some XXX forsaken place, where none of the above is available, that's where "failure" gets a hold.


Soon there will be walls everywhere, otherwise the unlucky might get lucky.

Changing times!

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I think our successes are rewards for acknowledging our failures.

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Agreed. To my mind, too many successes lead to stagnation. Learning from your failures in life/job/whatever brings improvement to all in your life.

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Those "walls" are becoming more necessary day by day to protect we successful from the losers who are increasingly breaking into OUR country to steal from us what we have built up.