Failure Is NOT the Key to Success

Failure only moves you towards success to the extent that you learn from it. Learning from failure means not making the same mistake over and over again.

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Failure gets over-emphasized as being the key to success.

LEARNING is the key to success.

Failure only moves you towards success to the extent that you learn from it.

You should never fail twice for the same reason.

Correcting a mistake will move you closer to success, but making the same mistake over and over again will lock you into loser-mode.

Always analyze your mistakes. Whenever something doesn’t go your way, deeply analyze the circumstances to identify what you should have done differently, or, even if you acted appropriately based on all the information available, how you could have gotten more information or taken intermediate actions to extract more signal to inform later bigger actions.

Maintain a gigantic locus of control and bias towards internalizing blame. Don’t dwell or make excuses. Just learn and apply that learning to the future so you don’t make the same mistake twice.

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