@Edent When 38 Degrees was interviewing for a few Executive Director, we were asked to contribute some possible interview questions. Mine was "tell us about a time you failed". My (almost all ~20 years younger) colleagues hated it - "We don't want somebody who's _failed_". I failed to convince them that actually, we didn't want somebody who'd never failed, which I feel was one of the biggest failures to communicate in my life. How can people not see that you learn more from failure than from success?

Might be a programmer thing, I realised in retrospect. Tests are most valuable when they fail.