







How can you fail and still learn something eventually?





This study from the University of South California shows that you should frame your expectations as choices among options so when you fail you can regret that you didn't make another choice and eventually try another choice in the future and maybe succeed and learn instead of avoiding the situation in which you failed. (That's what casinos do to keep people playing)





You effectively set the failure as a mistake not a total failure : A wrong choice that could have been avoided.





Conclusion : if you make a mistake at least you can still play but every time you fail, you meet a dead end and you have to backtrack eventually to try another path.

Failure is not an option.





PS : Some people tell me that the article from MIT says 'more' in the title. Yes it says more, obviously because when you learn something from success and you learn nothing from failure you learn more from success. If you pay attention, they say that they observe no behavioral change from failure.









When people fail they have to unlearn some of their failed assumptions, that's why failure can sometimes seem so painful.