How can failure be useful?

Answer 1

1st answer: "Many people tend to reduce the impact of failure by saying things like "Oh, I'll remember that next time" or "now I know how to avoid this". Well, the truth is that when you fail that means that you just weren't good enough to succeed. Didn't matter how hard you tried; you screwed up. And that will always be there, haunting you, and you will never be able to change that. Might as well go crawl in a hole for the rest of your life because you are such a failure.

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Troll the Dinosaur Fanatic"

Well, that was an interesting read. However, it doesn't seem to be much of an answer. It seems to me that failure can be useful in many ways. In one example, a mouse's failure to reach the end of his maze is useful to the scientist, who can document said failure, and amend or recreate his experiment.

Also, it should be noted that not all failure plays out in exactly the same way. There are hopeless failures, as the first answer suggested. Then there are not so hopeless failures. Then there are flukes- situations in which failure was unlikely, but it occurred anyhow. And I'd say flukes are nothing to be overly concerned with, unless of course loss of life was involved; and even then, I'd say it's not too terrible to be fixed.

I could go on and on. But then, I DO wonder about things. I wonder if this answer of mine will be deleted or something of the sort. Wouldn't that be interesting. It would give me much the same feeling as I always got as a child in those public places where naughty children (who weren't me) did and said things (around me) of which their parents would disapprove, if their parents had voices at all (they usually didn't. Strange thing, really).

That is all.