If you don't have your fair share of failures after a while, then you're probably not trying hard enough, or at least not exposing yourself to enough opportunit

If you don't have your fair share of failures after a while, then you're probably not trying hard enough, or at least not exposing yourself to enough opportunities. That's a valid point, but I think that not investing in something isn't the same as trying and failing - if anything, it's avoiding trying so as to avoid failing, and later realising that you exposed yourself to too few opportunities, not too many. Trying and failing is when you invest in something that ends up losing you money - and yes, if you never do that (either in investments, or a similar analogy in any other area of life) then you're not taking enough risks.