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What does it mean?
Failure is inevitable and part of the process; the goal is to refine it.
In plain terms
Keep trying and failing, but try to fail with more skill each time.
What can you take from it?
Keep trying, keep failing, but improve how you fail.

Where it applies

  • entrepreneurship
  • learning
  • creative work

Putting it to work

  • iterative work
  • learning from mistakes
  • persistence

Questions to consider

  • How do you define failure?
  • What can you learn from failing again?

Another view

Some failures are too costly to repeat.

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