2026-01-13 14:20:18

Don't Take Failure as Honor

Silicon Valley often emphasizes: fail fast, fail multiple times.

But look at what industry leaders say—it's better to learn from successful cases than from failures.

Why? It's simple:
→ A product can fail in 1000 different ways
→ But there is only 1 path to success
→ You simply don't have enough time to study every failure scenario

Failure is just data feedback, not a badge of honor.

Don't package it as a belief or a practice. The truly smart approach is: efficiently find that 1 way to succeed, rather than getting lost in failure analysis. This logic applies to both product development and business.

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TerraNeverForget

· 01-13 14:42

Honestly, I'm already tired of that "embrace failure" motivational speech. Do some people really treat it as a religious belief? The path to success is right there. Do you really have to step into 1,000 pits to find it? It's a waste of time.

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0xLuckbox

· 01-13 14:41

Haha, I knew it. Those who boast about failure every day are a bit虚啊 This hits the nail on the head. The path to success is so少, yet they spend time researching 1000 ways to崩溃? Waste of life. Taking shortcuts is not丢人; finding the right path is真正的本事.

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NFTArchaeologis

· 01-13 14:30

The path to success for early projects is often only one, while the ways to fail are countless. This is most deeply felt during on-chain archaeology — projects that leave behind relics are never forged through repeated stumbles.

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IntrovertMetaverse

· 01-13 14:28

That's so true. A bunch of people talk about failure every day, but they're just making excuses for themselves. The ones who really make money never get caught up in these things; they just follow the logic of success directly. Listening to Silicon Valley talk is fine, but don't take it seriously. Every time I see someone brag about how many times they've failed, I just want to laugh... What about efficiency? And the results? Failure is just failure, there's nothing romantic about it. Why dress it up in new clothes? It's the same with Web3. Those project teams keep talking about what they've learned every day, but isn't it because they haven't succeeded that they say that? Reviewing successful cases is more appealing, so why study those 1000 ways to go bankrupt? This article hits the point—most people are indeed doing it backwards.

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