A wise man once told me: once you drop to the bottom, don't come up without a pearl. 🦪

The thing is, it's okay to fail at what you do sometimes, but returning with stories and scars of failure won't change anything or make a difference.
Are you better at what you do now?
Where’s the change?
For instance, let’s say there’s a business protocol named B. With minimal influence but credible enough and expert at what they do, they gained trust.
Then one day, due to an unforeseen vulnerability in their smart contract, they got hacked.
Literally, a single hack won’t break a protocol. But if that protocol returns with the story of the hack and continues with the same system that engineered it with no new fail-safe methods engineered, not only would they lose attention (which is the new capital), they’d also lose credibility, which in turn cripples the business.
The major takeaway here is: if you must fail, fail fast and rise quickly. But if you hit rock bottom, don’t try to swim up without evidence that you reached the ocean floor.
Goodnight.