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What does it mean?
Failing is okay if you learn from it.
In plain terms
Learning from failure makes it success.
What can you take from it?
Treat failures as lessons.

Where it applies

  • entrepreneurship
  • education
  • personal development

Putting it to work

  • review mistakes
  • try again
  • keep going

Questions to consider

  • What did you learn from a failure?
  • How do you handle setbacks?

Another view

Some failures have too high a cost to learn from.

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