But real life is not like the movies, and for every student or athlete who responds positively to failure by returning to training or studying, there are ten more who simply give up. That’s why as part of the success/failure paradigm, there ought to be a measurement for stick-to-it-iveness, the idea that despite success or failure, a person returns to train and learn. This is the same drive that Thomas Edison must have had when the laboratory light bulb attempt #801 exploded or the same training methodology that Lebron James employs, where he exercises nearly every day of the year, whether he wins a championship or not, as ESPN reports. According to an article in the New York Times, this willingness to return to a subject, a class, a sport, or any activity despite having botched some kind of contest is the very hallmark of potential success.