You learn more from failures than success.
This is a popular belief but it's a big myth.
The fact is that both failure and success teaches valuable lessons you can study and learn from to become (more) successful.
But first, what's failure and success?
What is failure?
Failure is the inability to produce the desired outcome.
What is success?
Success is the accomplishment of a purpose. A turn out of the desired outcome.
Why people feel failure teaches more
The truth is that you can learn as much as you want from both success and failures.
Success produces excitement, satisfaction, and a sense of contentment in those who achieve it.
As a result, they tend to relax and take a break from further pursuit of the same or similar goals.
When people achieve success, the next natural step is to enjoy and celebrate their achievement.
Nothing else matters at that moment but that doesn't mean there are no lessons to be learned from the success.
Most people ignore the lessons in success but give more attention to what failures teaches because failure makes a man soberer.
When you fail at achieving your goals, you become more reflective.
You take a critical look at the path you've followed, the decisions you've made, the actions you've taken and attempt to discover what it is you did wrong or didn't do that resulted in the failure.
Failure forces you to stop and think about all the factors contributing to the outcome with the aim of identifying the missing ingredient for a successful outcome.
Once this missing ingredient is found, one is said to have learned and will try again until the desired outcome is produced.
Complacency is the bodyguard of success
Success brings with it some level of complacency.
Ever heard of the saying, "never rest on your laurels"?
That's a wise man's way of saying, learn from your success and capitalise on it to achieve more and greater success.
When you look back at the path you've followed, the decisions you made, the actions you took or didn't take to achieve success, you will discover what worked and what didn't work.
You will also find why what worked and why what didn't work, did not work.
This knowledge or experience, if learned from can become a powerful tool to making future success easy for you.
Conclusion
Most people tend to pay more attention to the lessons taught by failures than what success teaches.
And that's why it seems there's more to be learned from failures than success.
But that's not true.
Both success and failure contain tons of valuable lessons to profit from. None more than the other.
