This happened to me a lot. And then I heard something Ryan Holiday said, and I don't know if it was a quote from Marcus Aurelius. The thing is that if you take a little bit of mud to cover a wall and you think that that piece of mud will end up being you when you die, it changes your chip.

What difference does it make to fail if even the emperor of Rome ended up being just a handful of mud?

There is no need to be afraid, we will end up as mud

Great piece George