That line of thinking ignores the fact that many types of failure are predictable and avoidable.

WSJ: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Everyone shared pages from their playbook and themes that are all-too-familiar for Silicon Valley types, including embracing lessons from failure, failing forward, and nurturing a culture that encourages risk-taking.

FORBES: The Arab World Needs (Entrepreneurial) Heroes

There are two types of people: those nervous about failure, and those who prepare and enjoy success.

FORBES: The Best Team Ever? Maybe So

But the report says it suggests the narrowness of young people's view of the types of work available - and the failure of employers to present a broader picture of opportunities.

BBC: Teenagers' 'mismatched' job ambitions

All are flawed players, either past their prime or pure platoon types who have some success in their past but just as much failure.

WSJ: Old? Retired? Yankees Are Interested

Crash types that declined more slowly appeared to result not from lack of understanding, but from failure to master certain driving skills.

FORBES: Study Shows When Teen Drivers Most Likely to Crash

All this helps explain why establishment types insist that only "comprehensive" immigration reform is politically viable despite its unpopularity and longstanding failure to actually pass into law.

FORBES: A daunting policy problem demands more modest solutions.