#Learning From Failure

Glorious Mistakes as Engines of Creative Growth

To turn mistakes into momentum, we must engineer conditions where missteps carry insight, not ruin. Amy Edmondson’s research on psychological safety shows that teams learn more when members can speak up without fear (Administrative Science Quarterly, 1999), a finding echoed by Google’s Project Aristotle (2016). Practices like rapid prototyping, A/B testing, blameless postmortems, and time-boxed design sprints shrink risk while amplifying learning. In such sandboxes, errors are reversible, documented, and immediately repurposed into the next iteration. [...]

To Know What You Can Now, You Must First Know What You Could Not - Pablo Picasso

It underscores the idea that knowing what you can now achieve is closely tied to acknowledging how you've evolved and overcome past limitations. Growth is a continuous process rooted in self-awareness. [...]

Do Not Be Embarrassed by Your Failures, Learn from Them and Start Again - Richard Branson

The quote encourages maintaining a positive attitude in the face of failure. Rather than being disheartened, one should analyze what went wrong and use that information to make better decisions in the future. [...]