Failure Does NOT Instruct
(Or, Why teachers give everyone a trophy.)
9 min readAug 21, 2018
No doubt all of us are on fairly intimate terms with failure. The road leading to most of our present states is littered with the smoking remains of our mistakes. It’s easy, then, to look back and count these moments as instructive, as either necessary for today’s success or an ignored lesson responsible for today’s failures. To that wisdom, we…
