Artists throw out dozens of half-used canvases before they finish a painting, and scientists mix thousands of dud combinations before they find the right formula. Failure is just as important as success, and much more common, but more importantly both terms are flexible and relative definitions that we can reshape. What we determine to be failure only becomes so when we choose to see it that way.
Doing more wrong doesn’t prevent us from doing more right, and the two actually tend to be correlative, if not causative. Business is more art than science, especially in what separates the great from the good, and it’s only those who throw out canvases who can ever paint a masterpiece.
