A Few Words About Failure
Turning It into Success
Abstract
This chapter discusses the value of failure, especially how to use it as an opportunity to improve.
Keywords
Success
Failure
Opportunity
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Bill Gates
Failure as Success
It would be incomplete, in a book about successful user experience, not to mention failure, which is arguably a key element to success. Many people don’t feel comfortable admitting failure; it seems we openly place more value on success. That is misplaced, since failure is the balance to success. How can we know success if we don’t also recognize failure?
There is no shame in failing at something. It means that you tried. Perhaps ...
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