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by oldmancoyote 2720 days ago
"A lot more experience = a lot more failures." YES. Your failures both form you and inform you at least as much as your successes.
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They also make you more pessimistic. Maybe rightly so.
I look at that differently. My favorite epigram goes like this:

Very few worthwhile projects are ever successful on the first attempt. Failure is just another useful metric giving guidance on the re-formulation of the problem and the solution. Failure has nothing what-so-ever to do with guilt.

For the longest time as a young man I did not understand this. I though something was wrong with me because I failed so often.