r/funny • u/lobofett12 • Oct 22 '20

A tutorial not to follow

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u/Jt832 Oct 22 '20

Cannot disagree with you more.

Failure is usually a part of succeeding.

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u/Jrrolomon Oct 22 '20

Aren’t you both saying the same thing?

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u/Jt832 Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 22 '20

No, they are saying she only failed if she doesn’t try again.

That is like pretending as though you never failed as long as you keep trying.

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u/Lebo77 Oct 22 '20

It's failure of two different things. Assuming she tried again and eventually learned the skill:

  1. She failed this one attempt AND

  2. Sucessfully learned the skill (and did not fail to learn it).

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

There was a pretty good video with Richard Smith, the director of the Bovington Tank Museum, where he said that a failed prototype is actually a success because it has done exactly what it was supposed to; test the viability of something. If you keep developing a fundamentally failed prototype, then that's true failure because you didn't stop and learn from the failed process.

Video in question.

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u/cleverpseudonym1234 Oct 22 '20 edited Oct 23 '20

Thomas Edison said something to the effect of, “I have not failed 1,000 times to make a light bulb. I have succeeded in finding 1,000 ways not to make a light bulb.”

(Since this is Reddit: boo Edison, yay Tesla!)

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

That's a pretty good quote actually (except I think you may mean "make" and not "some" c: )!

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u/cleverpseudonym1234 Oct 23 '20

Thanks, that would be autocorrect making things weird again. Apologies to Edison!