The Myth of Learning from Failure


April 20th, 2026 We learn more from failure than we do from success. We’ve all heard this. A search for the phrase “learning from failure” produces hundreds of similarly titled articles espousing the virtues of failure as the path to personal progress. In Kim Scott’s pragmatic and often-referenced book on feedback, Radical Candor, she mentions this idea as the crux of her feedback argument. To learn, there must be suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the learning. The story of...