Learn more from success or failure?

@sutent (1060)
China
August 12, 2009 8:36am CST
Hi, The discussion had been debate for many times. Do you think about it per your personal experience? Which one we can learn more form? Look forward to sharing. Have a good evening!
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@mmohanc (18)
• India
13 Aug 09
I feel failure provides more opportunity. At times of success try to learn how to tackle with a failure, and beware check the people around you. Failure is also great thing to learn. It marks a great restart opportunity, from the start. With the conditions and treatment towards you changing, stressing on the bright side, identify your allies, and seek for the lost. Seeking for the lost may be tiresome but tests your mettle, and in here is where one can learn more about oneself.
@sutent (1060)
• China
13 Aug 09
Hi, Yes, you right. If we lost, we can learn more about ourselves and improve ourselves. Find out the reason of failure, learn something from it, then we grow up undesigntedly. IN contrast, if we success, we are proud and always not pay attention to the reason why we success. So we can learn more from failure. Happy mylotting!
• Philippines
13 Aug 09
I learn more from my failure.my failures taught me to be humble and to be careful.my failures taught me that life isn't perfect.my failures taught me that I should strive harder.my failures taught me that I should try another solution
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@sutent (1060)
• China
13 Aug 09
Hi, It seems that many of us learn more from failure, of course including me. Just like you said, failure taught us to be more humble, more cautious, more persistive, and more diligent, and then make us better. Happy my mylotting!
• India
12 Aug 09
Hello friend. Very good and debatable topic indeed. But what I think that this does not depend upon whether a person is succeeded or failed. I think this depends on how a person thinks about it. If he/she thinks that the current failure has adversely affected him/her and the person had got the chances to not let that happen, then in that case he may learn from his failures and will try to do better next time. But, if he gets depressed by his failures nothing can make him learn from them. Further, I believe that there are many tasks which repeat themselves frequently in one's life. And if a person does well in the task (by chance or by hard work) then he/she knows what to do in the next similar task. And if a person gets overconfident at his/her succes the also no learning. So, I think it all depends on a person, how he behaves to particular task and how well he handles his success or failure. Happy myLotting.
@sutent (1060)
• China
14 Aug 09
Hi friend, Yes, it is really a debatable topic. You chose a different angle to answer the question. How to face or handles failure or success? That is a good point. If you are positive to confront failure and strive more, you will be better. And if you can be cautious to success, not be overconfident and learn some good experience on it, you will be better. In contrast, you will get nothing, but failure and failure again. Happy mylotting!
• Philippines
12 Aug 09
Failures, mistakes, bad experiences happen for a reason. They happen because they serve to teach us very important lessons. So, if you ask me... people should learn more from their mistakes and failures. Successes are our rewards for the applying the lessons we learned from our mistakes. Sadly, some people fail to appreciate and learn from their failures so they are bound to make the same mistakes over and over again.
@sutent (1060)
• China
12 Aug 09
Hi, Per my personal experience, i completely agree with you that we can learn more from failure or mistakes. What we pay more attention to is learning something from mistakes or failure and not making the same mistakes over and over again. Happy mylotting!
@bziebarth (228)
• United States
12 Aug 09
You certainly learn more from mistakes then success. In fact, most successful people will tell you that their success came out of failure. Alexander Graham Bell tried thousands of designs for the light bulb before he found the one that worked. He said that each failure was one step closer to success. Failure does more than bring us one step closer to success. Failure makes a larger impression than success. Our minds and memories are affected by emotions. The stronger the emotion, produced by an event, the stronger the memory. Often, emotions are strongest during and after a failure than a success. Thus, our memory would retain more information about a failure. The important thing is how we react to failure. If we let it stop the endeavor or permanently knock us down then we have learned nothing. The knowledge gained will be lost. We will not be one step closer to success.
@sutent (1060)
• China
14 Aug 09
Hi, Many people learn more from failure than success, of course including me. We often learn experience from failure, try again and again, rectify again and again, then we success, which had been demonstrated by the story of Alexander Graham Bell invent light bulb. Learning something from failure is good way to success indeed. Happy mylotting!
• United States
12 Aug 09
I think that you can learn from both. However, the tendency is for people to learn much more from failure. You can learn from succeeding at something because by achieving what you needed to, you know exactly what needs to be done. The only problem is, once you succeed, that's kind of it. Problem solved, it's over. People are rarely praised or receive feedback when they do things correctly. Without acknowledgement and praise, success can go unrecognized and a lack of feedback can stop learning in it's tracks. Many times, even if a person knows that what they are doing is correct, they simply need the praise in order to give them confidence. Of course we definitely learn from mistakes and failure. They teach us what NOT to do. Many times failure can be upsetting or even embarrassing. Because of the emotional aspect of failure it is more likely that lessons learned will stick with us stronger and longer. Also, failure can lead to constructive feedback and finding out a better way to do things. I used to work with people with disabilities and we called it "Failing forward". All people, no matter their ability level are bound to make mistakes. Those mistakes can turn to teachable moments and people can stand to learn a huge amount.
@sutent (1060)
• China
13 Aug 09
Hi, Yes, you are right. Although success teach us how to get it, we can also ignore it easily. In contrast, failure is easy to be forgotten. Additionally, when we fail,we always want ot find out the reason and learn something from it. Then we can move forward. So i consider that we can learn more from failure than success. Happy mylotting!
• India
13 Aug 09
Well, As per my own experience success has many fathers but failure is orphan. We get to know people very true with us when we fail. When we succeed they all love you and think you are right but a little failure changes their views drastically. You dont want to be in the limelight but at the same time you dont like to be overshadowed. In my view ,to identify your bestwishers you need to taste failure. Only the caring people will try to help you succeed at the time when it matters the most.
@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
12 Aug 09
Like my teachers used to tell me as a child, you learn from your mistakes. I find that this is really true in my life. I find that when I have done something wrong I have to find out what the right answer is. Also if I make a mistake in relationships and stuff I learn how it felt and do not want to do that again. So I think that failures led me to have successes later on.
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@sutent (1060)
• China
12 Aug 09
Hi, just like you, i also consider that failures led me to learn more and successes later on. Especially, in recently years, i found that i grow up due to those failure experience. In a Chinese word, a fall into a pit, a gain in you wit. Do you got the meaning, as i am not good at english. Happy mylotting!
@sblossom (2168)
12 Aug 09
No success is easy in the world. When you get a success in your life you should try to find out why you got success then you can use same way in the future. From your failure you also can learn why you failed but it doesn’t definitely lead you to next success.So I think learn from success is more important than learn from failure. However just after learning from your failure you are closer to success than before. Happy mylotting.
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@shimanaja (493)
• Indonesia
13 Aug 09
Hi there, I learn from both of them. Some told that failure is pending successful, and success just a bonus from our hard work. So i can learn more from success to made it as a high motivation doing the best. And also failure has to become our lessons for the future to be the best.
@Rose2798 (359)
• United States
12 Aug 09
Good evening! It's 9:41 AM for me! That's funny. Anyway, here is my argument. I will give you two ways of looking at it and my conclusion. You could learn more from success. It tells you exactly how to achieve it so you could reach it again and again. If you fail, you are just checking off a guess and check list, probably with a consequence along with. You could also learn more from mistakes. Mistakes, if you're smart enough you never do again. Success, you only learn from it the first time. Plus everyone says you learn from your mistakes. I think that the best way to learn is through other people's mistakes and your success.
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@sutent (1060)
• China
12 Aug 09
Hi, I just reviewed your profile. You are a American. Of course it's morning in your time, as i am a chinese and now it is 22:27. So nice to meet you, as i happen to work in an American pharmaceutical company. i am very appreciated with thorough analysis. Yes, you are right. We can learn form the both. But per my personal experience, i found that i learned more from failure. Of course, the best way to learn is through other people's mistakes and our own success. I choose that way. Have a good day!
• Philippines
12 Aug 09
well, you actually learn nothing from being success, except you either stupid or arrogant and might start putting down others on your success. unlike when you loose, you realize your mistake and be humble, and help others not to make your own mistake. I know from experience that success can just make you go blink if you don't lower yourself.
@sutent (1060)
• China
13 Aug 09
Hi I also consider we can learn more from failure per my personal experience. Failure makes us humble, careful and prudence. Failure play a important point in our growth. Happy mylotting!
• Nigeria
12 Aug 09
It is better to learn from failure. When you fail you are humbled to take a reflection back, by so doing, eyes become open to see errows committed that makes you to want to make amend