However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Outcomes and worth get separated, and the separation is worth taking seriously. Something can work perfectly and be wrong, and something decent can collapse without becoming a mistake. Judging a life by results alone hands the verdict to circumstances that were never entirely yours.

When you review a decision, score two things rather than one: whether it worked, and whether it was right. Keeping the columns apart makes it possible to learn from a bad result without disowning a good choice. It also stops a lucky result from teaching you the wrong lesson.