"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."- Samuel Smiles.
Something has to happen for us to learn some vital lesson about life and what it all means. Wisdom is not a function of successes recorded but more of failure had and experienced overtime.
Utilizing what we have is best appreciated from the point of view of the man who has so much to teach based on experiences learnt.
Working the way we do with life tells that, we must have don't it all and mostly failed before it becomes really clear that we have lived.
You cannot tell the story of a journey through the valley of the shadows of death without having gone through the process yourself.
If you don't get crushed on the author up, you will not know how to avoid being crushed on the way down.
The moment you are proceeding on your journey, keep your mind focused on the possibility of failing. Tell yourself that, there is a learning curve in failure and never allow it make you stop trying to quit at every unpleasant picture.
Mistakes are good, mistakes makes the story get better as it gets set to be told. Without mistakes, there will not be a story to be told of how far, how well and who you happened on along the way.