Let me tell you a very popular story about the importance of learning lessons, especially when unsuccessful.

A few hunters hired a plane to take them into a forest.

They spent two weeks hunting.

When the pilot returned to take them back, he saw they had shot two large buffaloes.

The pilot said, “This plane can only carry one buffalo. You’ll have to leave the other behind.”

The hunters disagreed. They said, “This exact plane let us ship two buffaloes last year; what difference does it make this time?”

The pilot was sceptical but went along with the plan.

“Okay, let us go.”

They put the buffaloes and left.

The plane struggled to fly.

The craft just couldn’t get high, so it soon fell to the side of a hill.

Luckily, the men survived.

Slowly but surely, they emerged from the ruins.

One hunter looked around.

“Where do you think we are?” he asked.

The other hunter scanned the landscape.

“I think this is about two miles from where we crashed Last year,” he said.

“Every mistake is a lesson in disguise; it’s only wasted if we fail to learn from it.”