我对“失败者”的定义是：在犯错之后，不反思、不利用错误，反而感到尴尬和百般辩解，不因获得新信息而感到充实，并试图解释自己为什么犯错而不是继续前行的人。从未犯过错的人，往往比只犯过一次错的人更不可靠。而一个犯过许多错误——但从未重复犯过同一个错误——的人，则比从未犯过错的人更值得信赖。

Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain why he made the mistake rather than moving on. He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors—though never the same error more than once—is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

——《反脆弱》

从没有错和总在犯同样的错才是让人感到绝望的东西。犯错了就反思调整改正，是希望感的基调。