“Do people learn more from success or from a mistake?” I asked.

Rory looked up. “I suppose they learn more from mistakes.”

“I wonder why that is?”

“I don’t know. I never thought about it.”

“The reason people learn more from mistakes is because they sit and try to figure out what went wrong. When people are successful, they are too busy celebrating to stop and figure out what went right.

“Next time a project goes well, stop and ask yourself, what were the factors that caused things to turn out right. Learning from success can be very powerful and it feels a lot better than learning from mistakes.” -TF