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Success can teach more actionable lessons than failure
Success can teach more actionable lessons than failure
Altman says lessons from successful outcomes have generally been more useful to him than lessons from failures, which often produce generic or misleading conclusions.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
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- 64:22
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