22 April 2019 - learn from failure

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Success brings overconfidence. You learn more from failure, but only within limits; people who fail all the time learn helplessness. When I am king of the world, I will seek a balance. I will define success as agreeing with me, and adjust the tolerance level to ensure optimal learning, except of course among those who require optimal helplessness.

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