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Failure is far more informative than success. Especially the failures that nobody returns from...

Positive psychology and getting motivated by success stories is one thing, probably universal.

Failure stories are not necessarily de-motivating. I find a good mental energy boost when I read or see 10 ways in which a certain thing went wrong and then coming up with an 11th way that works. Many inventions fall in this category (well known examples: Edison, Wright brothers) I understand not everyone thinks that way naturally.

> I think looking at success stories is probably more valuable. Failure stories are de-motivating,

More valuable for what exactly?

Just at finding patterns to emulate. The mind seems to work better at replicating something than it does finding what NOT to do. No proof of this just my observation.