Failures are like weeds. There’s no intrinsic property to a weed that makes it a weed; it’s simply a plant that we don’t want in the garden. A failure is just an event like any other. What makes it a failure is that we judge it to be so from the limited perspective we have at the time. ‘This wasn’t a desirable or expected outcome,’ we tell ourselves, ‘and therefore it must be a failure.’
