by Richard Karpinski, Damian Crowe, and you?
1. Fail early.
2. Fail often.
3. Fail quickly.
4. Fail cheaply.
5. Fail carefully, to maximize learning.
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Key: Q - Question, A - Answer, + - Support, X - Oppose, N - Note, L - Link, R - Reference
Rules: Answers must only follow Questions, and Support or Oppose must only follow Answers
Q Why do you say this?
A Failures are valuable to success and yet we hate them much too much.
+ We can learn more from failures that from successes.
X Failures discourage us and make us stop trying.
+ Edison invented electric lighting by failing thousands of times in a row.
+ In learning something new, we only need to succeed once.
+ We can modify our behavior in response to constructive feedback associated with failure.
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X
Q Why?
+ So we can try something else.
+ So we won't stay stuck here.
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X
Q Why?
+ Success is uncertain so we try, try again.
+ If the risk of failure is less than 100%, by trying often enough we raise our chance for success.
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X
Q Why?
+ So we can try something else soon and reach success faster.
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X
Q Why?
+ So we can afford to try again, repeatedly.
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X
Q Why?
+ We can learn more, faster, if we arrange our tries so we can learn from them if they fail.
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