Common pathway to success: Failure

The Boston Globe reports:

Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs are some of the first names that come up when you talk about paragon entrepreneurs of the past century or so. Ask a young founder about a role model for today’s “disruptors,” and she might come up with Travis Kalanick, the founder of the transportation company Uber.

But few people remember that before they succeeded, all five of them failed. Failure is an enormously powerful learning experience for entrepreneurs — yet most are happy to leave it behind them, undiscussed.

Learning.