You raise a really interesting perspective. I look at this as optimist versus pessimist perspective. Not achieving something can be considered a failure to one

You raise a really interesting perspective. I look at this as optimist versus pessimist perspective. Not achieving something can be considered a failure to one person and a learning less to another, glass half empty or full. I have personally struggled with this and it makes me wonder if there is a particular way a child grows up that places them on one side or the other. Is it parenting that creates this perspective or is it life experience as a child such as not getting picked for a team or not being first chair in band. After 30 years of life and achieving what I consider career success I wasn't sure I was capable of I have identified my pessimistic attitude as a fallacy in my personality. Constantly I am trying to change it but it can be really tough to not focus on failure and identify the positive's of events that don't turn out as planned.