Excerpts from “The Importance of Learning How to Fail,” by Jonah Lehrer, on jonahlehrer.com:

“An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.” -Niels Bohr

… success is a marathon, requiring some pain along the way. You only learn how to get it right by getting it wrong.

…Our children might forget what happened after the home-run, but they damn sure remember what we said after the strike-out.

… failure is an inescapable part of life, a state that cannot be avoided, only endured. Most worthy things are hard.