Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Success sits largely outside your hands, arriving or not for reasons that have little to do with how carefully you worked. What is yours is how you carry the attempts that do not land. Staying willing after something goes wrong is rarer than winning, and it is the part that decides whether there is a next attempt at all. Good spirits here do not mean cheerfulness, only refusing to let one setback harden into a verdict about you.

After the next thing that does not work, give yourself the evening, and then ask what you would try differently. Keep the answer small enough to attempt.