As Winston Churchill once said, “The trick is to go from one failure65 to another, with no loss of enthusiasm.” But how does one learn to perform that “trick” of “failing enthusiastically”? “Every time a prototype breaks, it’s heartbreaking,” Phillips said. But it’s also an opportunity: How do I learn to learn from failure? The answer is, through questioning. Rather than run from a failure or try to forget it ever happened, hold it to the light and inquire, Why did the idea or effort fail? What if I could take what I’ve learned from this failure and try a revised approach? How might I do that?
