When you're on a learning curve in terms of personal development, then you'll also make execution errors, which is fine. I think that my distinction differs in importance based on expectations: we often allow an apprentice more mistakes than the expert craftsman we've paid top dollar for, also because we limit our exposure with the apprentice.

I like how you distinguished the different types of failure. I’m not the kind who can get things right the first time, so normally I will give myself the grace to learn the ropes. Even though my huge ego may cause the failed scenes to keep looping in my mind haha

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How comfortable are you with failure?

There are different kinds of failure:

1. Assumption failure. You operated (perfectly) on an assumption (there always are some) that turned out to be wrong. As long as the assumption wasn't overly naive, this is great because it's a learning moment. Bonus points if you were aware of your assumption.
2. Execution failure. Basically you effed up even though your idea was (maybe) right. I think this should be prevented and is why you can pay a CEO the big bucks to get things done.