CDate:: [[05-04-2024]] Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: # Success can be better than failure, at the beginning of a learning endeavor Success helps us build [[How can we build self-efficacy|self-efficacy]] which is crucial for pushing through failures. It's for this reason, Scott Young actually advocates in his book [[Get Better At Anything]] for success over failure when first beginning a near learning endeavor because it helps you build self-efficacy to strive through the failures which are necessary for good learning later on. One easy way we can do this is focusing on learning the basics and stay in our [[Goldilocks zone]].