Do you learn better by failing or succeeding?

Some say failure is the best teacher: it humbles, sharpens, and strengthens you. Others feel success builds momentum and confidence.
In medical and pharmacy fields, both failure and success are part of the journey. But when you look back…

What taught you more personally, a moment of failure or a hard-earned success?
Share your own stories

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I believe learning has nothing to do with failure or succeeding you can learn from both there are many known peoples who have first got successful and then failed it’s abt the mind set

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Both has it’s own lessons. Success can give you confidence while failing gives you a new perspective of approaching a problem. Failure makes you explore new routes.

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Failure teaches you more than success. Remember: FAIL—First attempt in learning.

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This is unique perspective

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This is my thought too

Based on psychological studies, we usually recollect our failures with greater intensity compared to our successes. Possibly since failing compels us to change our course of action as well as adjust faster.

The biggest lesson for me was learning how a changed strategy (after an unsuccessful start) brought about success.

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Both success and failure are important in life. Success brings achievement, joy, and happiness, while failure teaches us valuable lessons, helps us grow, and shows us where to find solutions. Both perspectives are crucial for personal and professional growth.

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Both the success and failure plays major roles. we will succeed by doing the hard work and we learn with the strength and challenge when we fail.

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When you failed at something and again you start but this time you know where you did wrong and you take step carefully to get success. Your failure taught you how to get success .

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Both Sucess and Failure teaches you a separate life lessons . Failure teaches you that what went wrong, what you need to do better to achieve success, it also teaches you who are real friends in your struggling Period. Success teaches you to stay humble and Kind. It also teaches you that people’s opinion about you changes when you become successful. So , Just work on Yourself and don’t think about the result

Both have equal role in teaching lessons. I personally learnt from failure.

Success and failure are both essential parts of life, and we learn valuable lessons from both experiences.

In my opinion, I learn better by failing — mistakes teach lessons that success sometimes hides. Failure shows what went wrong and pushes me to improve, adapt, and grow stronger for the next try.

Both teaches in different ways. The journey towards a hard-earned success can teach that, after every darkness, light comes ultimately. If we keep going on with the same perseverance despite all hardships, success comes some day. So this ray of hope prompts us to go ahead, hoping that one day we will see the light of success, as power of hope is very huge in life. But, a moment of failure teaches much most of the times, because these moments are extremely intense and they break people. Nevertheless one is broken, they will not be able to meet their highest self. This highest self makes one realize their true potential, something that stays at a much deeper cellular level. Failures teach us patience, to stay calm around the hardships, to emote well, to feel the pain and still find out ways to move forward and to keep finding various solutions to our issues till we arrive at a solution. Failures act as driving forces mostly to find that inner potential and inner calling, what one cannnot see when situations are favorable. That’s why they say, failures are stepping stones to spectacular successes in life. They make us fearless and once one has tasted failure, they will never get worried about their foundations breaking down, as they will rightly know how to build back the empires on their own.

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For me, failure taught the most. One setback during pharmacy training—failing a major exam—completely changed how I approached studying and time management. It was humbling but pushed me to grow, seek help, and become more disciplined. While success later gave me confidence, it was that failure that truly shaped my mindset and resilience.

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Failure is just one step closer to success

This is so beautiful. You put every thought so beautifully

I learned from failures. There is no doubt in it.. Everyone should face it to grow and learn in life.

Both have their own stories. When you succeed with something that means you have also failed sometimes in the journey to earn that success. And when you grow with the success you will learn many things too. It’s just a cycle of learning things.

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