Today's Proverb on Proverb and Counter-Proverb is "Failure Teaches Success"
This proverb is semi-famous. It really applies to the "if you fail, try again" proverb. However, failure can't be the reason for success. At least not personally. Someone's success is usually many people's failures. So success causes failure. If you fail at something, you learn what results causes you to fail at a certain thing (that is if you learn for your mistakes, which is a key point). Just because you know what is the criteria for failure does not equate to your knowing the criteria for success.
Let's take an example: We all know that one plus one equals two. However, let's say a small child is taught that one plus one equals eleven. When he goes to school, he then learns the right answer and knows that one plus one does not equal eleven. He now learns that the answer is two, because the teacher told him so. But what's to stop the child from staying on his current knowledge of adding numbers together to form a double digit number of the same digits, that is to say, the child will still apply his current knowledge and predict that two plus two is twenty-two. Now you're thinking, no one is that stupid. It's just common sense and basic math that one plus one is two and two plus two is four. But the child was not educated about basic math. He was told what was wrong but not how to get what is right. He knows what fails but doesn't know what succeeds.
A more applicable ideal to students is studying. Most people know that not studying for a test is criteria for failure. So we avoid not studying. But, studying may not prove effective as a means to pass the test. We can study, hoping to succeed. We can also ignore studying and find some alternate way to prepare by ourselves in a new, or different way to succeed. We can just avoid it all and just fail. Nowhere in those three situations does the knowledge of how to fail teach us how to succeed.
Counter-Proverb: Failure teaches only about failure, but success is taught elsewhere.
Vince Notes: We know failure is bad and success is good. But we can't just avoid the bad and hope to stay on the good because that's not how it works. Success is just something one must find through immitation or creation. Enjoy your day.
(Y)
( , ,){The Bunnie says, "I never fail!"}
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This proverb is semi-famous. It really applies to the "if you fail, try again" proverb. However, failure can't be the reason for success. At least not personally. Someone's success is usually many people's failures. So success causes failure. If you fail at something, you learn what results causes you to fail at a certain thing (that is if you learn for your mistakes, which is a key point). Just because you know what is the criteria for failure does not equate to your knowing the criteria for success.
Let's take an example: We all know that one plus one equals two. However, let's say a small child is taught that one plus one equals eleven. When he goes to school, he then learns the right answer and knows that one plus one does not equal eleven. He now learns that the answer is two, because the teacher told him so. But what's to stop the child from staying on his current knowledge of adding numbers together to form a double digit number of the same digits, that is to say, the child will still apply his current knowledge and predict that two plus two is twenty-two. Now you're thinking, no one is that stupid. It's just common sense and basic math that one plus one is two and two plus two is four. But the child was not educated about basic math. He was told what was wrong but not how to get what is right. He knows what fails but doesn't know what succeeds.
A more applicable ideal to students is studying. Most people know that not studying for a test is criteria for failure. So we avoid not studying. But, studying may not prove effective as a means to pass the test. We can study, hoping to succeed. We can also ignore studying and find some alternate way to prepare by ourselves in a new, or different way to succeed. We can just avoid it all and just fail. Nowhere in those three situations does the knowledge of how to fail teach us how to succeed.
Counter-Proverb: Failure teaches only about failure, but success is taught elsewhere.
Vince Notes: We know failure is bad and success is good. But we can't just avoid the bad and hope to stay on the good because that's not how it works. Success is just something one must find through immitation or creation. Enjoy your day.
(Y)
( , ,){The Bunnie says, "I never fail!"}
C(")(")
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