Advice from failure?

Have you had an experience where the person giving you advice on how to succeed in a certain task has failed miserably?  What about when you have failed but chose not to remember all the circumstances surrounding it just so your self esteem is not damaged?  

When we fail at something, does not necessarily mean that we are not good at a particular task. Excuses will get in our way when we want them to. We choose how to respond to failure! As a child, did you not try to walk after your first falling over on your head?  What about when you wanted to ride a bike without training wheels? How about an "F" in school, they make you repeat the class!  Your first kiss, we all know you didn't quit after an epic failure like that!  As we age our mistakes involve more than just you.....sometimes it is a whole family, a business, a community, a country.  Remember that when we fail, it is to gain knowledge and hopefully, understanding to pass along.  Sometimes it is to learn a better way of handling situations. If when you fail, you chose not to enter into this mess again, then your failure has won.  When you choose to re-enter the nastyness of life, you have won because you can make a difference in the situation based on your new found understanding.  

Sometimes some of the best advice given can come from a prior failure?  This failure, if you learn it without the experience, would be called WISDOM.  When you learn it with the experience is called knowlegde.  You choose how you like to learn, from someone else's mistakes or from your own?  The great news is you get to choose!