Victor Ambrose, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 2024 is reported to have said, "If you fail only once every six months you aren't making much progress but if you fail daily, you are learning daily."
A very profound statement, right?
I had heard of Less is More and thought less you fail more you will learn. Looks like it was all wrong. It's an another matter that I didn't achieve much from my Semester exam.
Then I came across this quote and started learning to fail daily but the result has been disastrous. I am not getting enough time to learn more. Daily.
Am I doing something wrong?
Have you ever practised this advice? Successfully?
Please share your spark to ignite my mind. I am waiting.
If you think someone else is expert in advising -
Failures are certainly stepping stones to success, but only if we analyse the root causes of failure & change our processes that led to our failures to avoid further failures.
Fear of failure can itself freeze our minds & prevent our creative juices from flowing, inorder to do things first time right, whenever we embark on a new project. Thoughtfulness to potential pitfalls in our procedures, will help to address & to mitigate failures, if not completely eliminate them.
But to say that learning can occur only through the pathway of failures, is incorrect. Learning is an everyday requirement to keep our grey cells healthy and active. Learning new things everyday keeps the mind young, creates new neural pathways & promotes neuro- plasticity. This in turn keeps Dementia, Parkinson's & other mental afflictions due to aging, at bay!
Nice one.