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The presupposition that there is no failure, only feedback is central to our ability to learn. It opens up our “learning pores”. You may well find that you are a more porous learner if you accept that it is OK to fail provided that you learn the lessons.
Trial and error is the basic learning style of all mammels. Watch a baby learning to walk. First it watches the humans around it to see how they do this process of walking. Then it climbs to its feet. The first effort of moving one foot in front of the other usually ends in failure and a fall. Up it jumps and tries again. Failure follows failure until eventually it has sufficient feedback to enable it to stagger, uncertainly around. In time it masters the art of walking and does it as well as all the other humans.
This revolving process of observe, try, feedback, try again, feedback, try again, success is natural. Unless we try and very possibly fail, we never get the feedback that enables us to learn.
Take heart and learn!
