Learning from Failure
Using mistakes as opportunities for growth.
Mistakes and failures are opportunities for learning. The cultivated person does not repeat errors but reflects on them and improves. Not erring is less important than learning from error.
To err and not reform, this indeed is an error.
The real error is failing to learn from mistakes.
Analects
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- What Confucianism says about failure
Analects 15.30 relocates the fault: to err and not reform, this indeed is an error. The mistake is not the failure; leaving it standing is.