Why is failure critical to success, small insight i got when my son almost 5 now started learning skates. He is pretty smart and his balance and rolling is very good. But one of things in skates is to paddle very fast so that you can roll faster. He is really slow in that, why? because he is scared of falling down so to maintain balance he paddles slow and rolls slowly.
Crux is unless he paddles faster and rolls faster he will not learn, but in this process he will had to fall many times and get used to falling. Hence skill set here does not count even if your balance is good it does not count. What counts is failure and falling, more you fall, more you get used to and your confidence will go up, allowing you to learn and success much faster…..
I think that is true in all fields of our life……