Failure Is a Prerequisite? (Article)

This article in the Scientific American discusses a research article in Nature by Yin, Wang, Evans, and Wang (2019) about how important failure is — and which types of failure lead to success.

But not every failure leads to success, he adds. And what ultimately separates the winners from the losers, the research shows, certainly is not persistence. One of the more intriguing findings in the paper, published this week in Nature is that the people who eventually succeeded and the people who eventually failed tried basically the same number of times to achieve their goals.