De, keep searching for the right exercise.
Yeah, those third-party proverbs about failure are suitable for compost. When I cross my failures I feel pain in my gut. These are not private "I didn't complete a crossword" failures. I had witnesses. 100 in the university case. Many friends for the driving. I disappointed a whole class of people I didn't know by not showing up. Embarrassment, shame, disappointed in myself.
"Lessons" feels like these can be equated with learning 12 x 12 = 144. Ha!
Shake, onto my day of errands. But first, breakfast.