Learning from Failure

This cluster centers on the idea that failure is essential for learning, innovation, and ultimate success, with commenters emphasizing mantras like 'if you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough' and stories of entrepreneurs persisting through setbacks.

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Sample Comments

dylan604 Dec 3, 2020 View on HN

Sometimes there's more learning in the failure than the success

gdulli Aug 12, 2015 View on HN

There's more to learn from failure than from success.

id122015 May 22, 2016 View on HN

maybe you need to fail more times. You know what they say in the valley: if you are still not successful, you havent failed enough.

itamarst May 24, 2017 View on HN

Multiple failures do not guarantee success. Failure is a thing to avoid. If you do fail—as we all do eventually—you should learn from it, but you can usually learn something without having to fail yourself.

kranner Aug 17, 2010 View on HN

It's really only failure if you learn nothing and never try again.

davidw Jun 8, 2016 View on HN

If you don't have a few failures from time to time, you're not trying hard enough. Forget who said that.

lallysingh Jan 10, 2023 View on HN

If you're not failing, you're not learning!

Not having success at the beginning isn't failing. It's learning.

larrydag Jan 9, 2021 View on HN

From Elon Musk "failure is an option". My take, if you aren't failing then you aren't learning.

ThomPete May 13, 2017 View on HN

Business is mostly a series of failures, but failures are better than having done nothing.