SO many self-help books preach "persistence" and "never giving up", but then at the same time they also profess the value of learning what not to do through failure.

Stagnant_Flow · 2018-05-03T14:28:08+00:00

Two way to look at this. Lets say your goal is to learn how to play the trumpet. You start by watching videos online and practicing at home. You are very persistent and don't give up but you are not getting any better. What do you do?

You can learn what not to do through failure by realizing maybe you cant do this on your own. Then you hire a private teacher, go take classes in person and you get better. You didn't give up but you also learned from you mistakes.
You hire that private teacher and you still do not get any better. It is not fun for you and its causing more harm in your life than good. It was suppose to be a fun hobby and it wasn't so you go try something new.

Learning from failure dosen't always mean giving up, however some of the time what you have to learn from failure is that what you are doing is not worth it.

DochreanSepp · 2018-05-03T12:23:30+00:00

If the try was not worth the fail.

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