@freemo @L29Ah @hansw@mastodon.social I agree there is a strong bias. Society loves heroes so, most of the stories are written in this. Moreover, there is no mean to know if they were desmotivated at least for a moment because we all love that epic too. And even failures are known only when something came up from it. But what about all the others? I agree that failure is a main part in the process. A brief book is Failure: Why Science Is so Successful by Stuart Firestein