Why we learn more from success than failure

January 16th, 2010 / 4:00 pm

According to this article in Science Daily, if you’ve ever felt doomed to repeat your mistakes, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory may have explained why: brain cells may only learn from experience when we do something right and not when we fail. If so, then no wonder we need to work harder at learning from our mistakes and applying the resulting wisdom to continuous improvement.

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