by TANIA OLIVARES
Staff Writer
Failure is a factor in life that everybody has to face. Not everything goes by how we wanted or intended it to be. But to learn from our mistakes, we must, “analyze not only the failed result, but also the failure itself”(Fessler 1). Yet also, according to Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard, “The key to effectively analyzing our failures, she says, is realizing that not all failures are the same. Per her research, there are three distinct types of failure…”(Fessler 1). These tree failures are preventable failures, complex failures, and intellectual failures. Each all differ in their own way, yet also open new knowledge of how to not fail once more when you process them.
Preventable failures are failures in which can be stopped. Preventable failures can be considered getting a bad grade on a test or messing up on your job. Next, there are complex failures. Complex failures are when we have proper knowledge on something, yet internal and external factors come to a place, resulting in a complex failure. Last, there’s intellectual failure, where we are in a situation that we lack knowledge on, which lead to our failure because we don’t know.
Despite these different ways to fail, we can all, in the end, learn from each one. Failure is not always preventable, no matter which one it can be, yet we can all learn from it.