I often find myself saying the following: "We are the sum of our mistakes, though to re-offend is to not have learned". So much is made of out and out success

I often find myself saying the following: "We are the sum of our mistakes, though to re-offend is to not have learned". So much is made of out and out success these days, it sets up society to be an incredibly unforgiving place and feeds a loop of setting unattainably high standards for ones self or for those around you, and from that comes a fear of mistakes, if you cannot make a mistake you are denying yourself an opportunity to learn. Context: I was a manager of a software dev team dealing with high scale, and am now a technical non-management leader. Prior to that the founder of a few companies. Throughout all of that I've tried to fail a little less each day.