which were just the

Mentally separating good failures from bad failures takes

work. Poker is a simple game where the laws of

probability are cleanly defined. Real life is a lot

messier. It takes more effort to decide which failures

were because of a bad decision and which were just the

unintended side-effects of the best choice available.

Although it can be difficult to separate the two, there

are benefits to making two piles instead of just one. By

separating the two types of failures, it is easier to

persevere through good failures. It may hurt to have your

Business proposal shut down for the fifteenth time, but

it isn't necessarily a bad failure.