“Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.”

Source: 1970s, Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution, 1978, p. 42

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