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85% Rule
Last discussed Oct 7, 2026
A research finding (Wilson et al.) that learning is optimized at roughly a 15% error rate, meaning you succeed about 85% of the time.
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Mark Manson · Oct 7, 2026
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"There was this one research in the late 2010s, Wilson found what they called the 85% rule. The optimum error rate is about 15%. So you're succeeding about 85% of the time but failing about 15% of the time."
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