Have you ever talked with someone who justifies their failure with, “I might have failed, but I learned so much.”
What exactly is it, though, that they claim to have learned?
In my opinion, if failure can’t be translated into future success (or at least comprehensively articulated into why an attempt didn’t work, so strategy can be adjusted for subsequent efforts) then the phrase “I learned so much” is devoid of worth. It becomes the equivalent of a hollow platitude: a positive-sounding statement that possesses negative value, because it functions as an excuse to avoid investigating the failure and sharpen thought processes, which only serves to strengthen the problem.
Kent Wayne 
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