Nor should failure be considered a total loss. Once you start thinking like a Freak and running
experiments, you’ll find that failure can provide valuable feedback. Former New York City mayor
Michael Bloomberg understood this. “In medicine, or in science, [if] you go down a path and it turns
out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that
path again,” he said. “In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate,
unwilling to take risks in government.”