In the American best seller Tough Times Don't Last, But Tough People Do, Dr. Robert H. Schuller provides an angle of positive thinking on the subject. He argues that we need not fear failure, because failure does not mean that we ourselves are failures, it means only that we have not yet succeeded.
美國暢銷書「逆境中的創意思考」中，作者舒勒博士也提出積極思考的角度：「我們無需恐懼失敗，因為：失敗並不表示你是失敗者﹘﹘失敗只是表示你尚未成功。