No one is trying to protect a brand that may not exist yet, and nobody has reason to be afraid
of small failures.
There is a lot of blood, sweat and small wins coupled
with small failures along the way and usually we are only seeing one small part in that moment of their life.
They're meant to encourage people to take risks, be bold, and
embrace small failures — after all, if you're not making mistakes, you're not reaching your limits.
No matter how well the tenants are screened, say these are perfect renters, there's the
regular small failures, and wear and tear.
On the opposite side of Taleb's ledger are the fragile, those institutions, professions or systems that
avoid small failures at any cost and in the process make themselves vulnerable to unpredictable shocks.
Learners need to feel some authentic connection to and engagement in a task, they need to
recognize small failures as a healthy aspect of the learning process, and they need to develop an understanding that true mastery and pursuit of a passion may take years.
If big blackouts were just a random, unlucky confluence of
many small failures, as grid planners and operators believed, a major grid collapse would occur only once in a thousand years or so, showing up as the slim tail on a bell curve.
If you find that the thing holding your success back is «cheating» on your diet,
mastering small failures is probably the number one thing you can do to minimize the impact of stepping outside your diet.
Organizational learning generally occurs when groups
acknowledge small failures and consider alternatives, and this occurs more often when more people take responsibility for problem finding and problem solving (Levitt & March, 1988).
(Lots of hand waving, and looking at foreign examples
where small failures did not impair the system.)
We can learn a lot about project failure from studying the video of the award presentation, especially the most important takeway: Most project failures are the result of a series
of smaller failures, none of which, by themselves, would doom the project.
Whether large or
small failures, those people who have made it to the top tiers of all endeavors have experienced outcomes that were less than what they wanted.
Miller explains, «If you are focused on
the small failures and successes, you may miss out on how those failures or successes are affecting the big picture.»
Those that look chaotic, full of redundancies and prone to
small failures, are in reality robust.
relief to be free of the round - the - clock reminder of
my small failure to breastfeed.
The trio fleshed out an equally disturbing lesson on blackout prevention: The conventional practices of preventing blackouts, which involve trying to thwart even
the smallest failures, may actually increase the likelihood of big ones.
And
that small failure was purely local — it didn't affect the structure as a whole.»
Regardless of your aspirations, dividing your ultimate goal into smaller, manageable tasks has been proven to work better than sticking only to the big picture — if anything, the latter seems to lead only to confusion and frustration, especially when you put all of your hopes and motivation into a life - changing complex goal without realizing that it's a long term commitment and
small failures are bound to happen.
All vaccines have
some small failure rate, meaning certain children who have been immunized against something like measles are still at risk — a risk that only rises if they are going to school with other potential carriers.
Resilient learners will be more successful at sticking at revision as they come to realise
that small failures are not a problem and success comes from turning up and not giving up!
When an economic system is overleveraged, with leverage that is layered, such that a domino effect can occur,
small failures can have disproportionate results.
(The film makers warn people not to try liquid oxygen at home, apparently «one
small failure will destroy your entire output of fish».)