If you don’t begin, you’ve failed.
You’ve lost the game.
Any action you take will make you un-fail, un-lose a little. It will move you an inch closer to succeeding.
We fail sometimes. The more we do, the more we fail. The question is: can we turn it into learning? If so, how effectively?
Can we reflect while the failure is fresh and learn a lesson?
The thing you’re working on, does it work?
Why? Why not?
Whatever the outcome. Look at it from an evolutionary perspective:what works in the current conditions survives.
It’s easy to blame yourself. All you have to do is let your brain get a bit tired and it will remind you how everything is wrong.
But as I was reading The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman, a foremost design…