How do u feel once a something doesn’t go as planned?

Question: How do u feel once a something doesn’t go as planned?
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Asked by salma on 26 Jan 2022.
- Samuel Ellis answered on 26 Jan 2022:
  
  Failed experiments can be frustrating, especially if they take a long time or waste limited samples. But it is also an opportunity for problem-solving, to think about what steps may have gone wrong and how you can test that or change it for next time. Often you learn unexpected new things from the work that does not go to plan, and it is all the more satisfying when an experiment finally works!
- Prabs Dehal answered on 27 Jan 2022:
  
  It can be frustrating, but science is trial and error. You learn something each time.
- Valerie Vancollie answered on 27 Jan 2022:
  
  I find you can often learn quite a lot from when things go wrong or unexpectedly. At the moment it’s more a case of it not being great if things go wrong as that means potential contamination, but in a previous job it could mean we’d discovered something new, since we were looking at the functions of genes. So there unexpected could be quite exciting.
- Chris Budd answered on 27 Jan 2022:
  
  Great! This is how you learn new things. As (the great) Michael Caine said ‘use the difficulty’.
- Jonny Coates answered on 27 Jan 2022:
  
  It can be frustrating but I always say that as long as you learn something (even if that is what not to do next time!) then it was a success. Most of science is actually things not working or going to plan and then us adapting and changing our approach. This is how we really learn new things and make progress. Plus if everything worked first time as expected that would be so boring!

Question: How do u feel once a something doesn’t go as planned?

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