Friend, when have you failed at something horribly before? What did you gain out of that experience? In our Western, victory-driven, and competitive culture, we are prone to avoid meditating on failure because it makes us feel bad. Even though we know we are human and all make mistakes. But if we fail to confront our mistakes and failures, we can’t learn and grow from them. When we fail but don’t become better as a result, then those failures are wasted. Therefore, failures are our greatest opportunities to learn and grow.