When you've paid the tuition of failure, it's time to harvest the learning. Be greedy about wringing out every drop of useful content so you can do better next time. That emotionally charged word greed is delibarate -- it shifts the mindset from seeing a failure as a liability to something that might be a transforming asset.
Successful people view both success and failure as feedback.
One of my failures was enrolling in a seminary college for a brief time. The grades were fine, but the enthusiasm rapidly ran out of steam. Why? While my skills aligned well, my spiritual beliefs had changed significantly. As a result, the goal had degraded from doing good to merely feeling good.
In this case, I literally paid tuition of failure -- and learned that talents need the good soil of a passionate cause in order to flower!
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