Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching I've learned from making mistakes.
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes make all you can. Because remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people because the process is your life. That's going to be really really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson 'Failure is OK.'
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.
I've had a lot of success I've had failures so I learn from the failure.
With everything that is complex we learn. If you don't learn then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn and you're able to apply that to the next situation then you take away a measure of success.