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I'm not sure if those mistakes compare. When you fail at school's test it's because you didn't learn some facts or formulas, not because you took wrong steps in unpredictable markets and environments.

The companies do punish people who make the wrong decisions even though these people couldn't have known they would be wrong and just took a bold step. But in startups you also get penalized by losing your company and/or money.

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Mistakes are part of life. Failing because you didn't learn a fact only shows that you didn't learn that fact. It shows nothing else. But children grow up and become managers thinking that mistakes is something to be avoided when in fact mistakes are something to be expected and accepted.

This fear of mistakes is exactly the reason some people actually believe in projections. Sad but true.

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