Minor quibble:<p>Snipers and long range target shooters establish a baseline zero and then adjust their sights off of that based on variables like the wind. As the author correctly notes they learn how to make those adjustments by missing.<p>They learn how to make their bodies perform both by missing and by practicing a <i>lot</i>; a large fraction of those "5,000 shots in training" will be something better than "misses" if they're going to be successful in the field or competition.<p>Lesson for this domain:<p>Learning how to do some things reliably on demand is also a part of being generally successful (it's at least one foundation) and for almost all that takes plenty of practice.
I like to use the concept of course correction, here, rather than "hits or misses"/"success or failure". When I use the course correction concept instead, it drops all of the emotion loaded up into the thoughts of failure or success and it becomes <i>refinement</i> (which is lighter) than "I failed" or "I succeeded".