An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end they got the results they wanted. In politics or government, if you made a hypothesis and it didn’t work out, you had your head cut off. 

Polaroid inventor Edwin Land on embracing failure, among other insights on what it takes to innovate.

Via Exp.lore.com.