When we fail it can be the false lure into doubt that harms, yet we have the choice to be elevated instead, to make that failure work for us and propel us ever higher.
Success is reaching the a mountain top with battered soles and then figuring out how to make the right shoes to protect those whom follow. For a master is one transmits their well earned wisdom to others for the least possible emotional and physical cost, yet in a way that renders the learning solid. For only then will the peaks of followers be higher still, creating new masters, and the rise of mankind be a good and noble path.
The rungs of the ladder to success are the failures you learn from.
Failure is the reset, a do-over, a chance to fix what needs fixing and set sail once more.