Failure, Success & Experience

“Experience builds on past-success, and it redirects past-failure.”

As stated in “Theory of Self-Relativity”:

“Failure and success are simply steppingstone events in the process of continued improvement.”

This means, failure and success are events that give us our experiences. Failure teaches us what we did wrong, and success teaches us how we can do even better. This is why, neither failure nor success are to be considered final events. Just as we don’t stop laughing again after the last time we laughed, we shouldn’t stop laughing again after the last time we felt sad. Likewise, just as we don’t have one successful event and stop, we shouldn’t let failure stop us either.

Although acquisition of knowledge is one of the best ways of learning, application of knowledge is the best way of gaining experience. However, often, the best form of learning occurs when we make mistakes or when we realize we were wrong; because properly learning from mistakes immunizes our thinking from committing the same mistake again.