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https://www.lifehacker.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/29/18p3aus5m4itpjpg.jpg?quality=75640360We like to look at successful people in our field and ask what they did right, but we really ought to ask what they (and others) did wrong. Attempting to distill the virtues of triumph erases the most important element: failure.