[klabb3]

This isn’t satire to me, that’s genuinely great life advice. I use it all the time. For instance, a difficult stressful tech interview was passed with flying colors using that psychological method.

In general parlance (American in particular), a conditional negative (eg “if I got cancer”) is usually verboten, like you cause a side effect (=killing the vibe) even though the condition isn’t materialized. You have to look past that to get the golden nugget.

Assuming you’re gonna fail, you’ll have learnt a lot and enjoyed it. You don’t confuse external opportunity and expectation with your passions and interests. Psychologically it also reduces the stakes. It doesn’t really matter if the outcome is failure or success, the point is that it’s constant.

[mattbrewsbytes]

The satire comment was in general about that author and post, not the specific line.

Failing is learning. Failing in something you don't enjoy isn't fun.

[borroka]

Sometimes one can learn from failures. Other times, most of the time I'd say, failure is failure and one ends up, depending on the failure, with less money, less energy, fewer successes.

I don't like "failing", I don't want to fail so I can learn, certainly for the ambitious person there are failures, losses, things that did not work out on the way, hopefully to success, but selection bias is strong when saying that failing is learning.