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A mantra of mine since childhood: "If at first you don't succeed, you're doing something wrong." (Stop and try to really understand the elements of your approach, when feeling frustrated).
If you always succeed at first, you're not aiming high enough.
Unless there are some failures, it's near certain that you're not approaching the maximal rate of change of which you are capable (and are probably being overly conservative in what you attempt in order to sustain the perfect record).
But if your first approach to every task is right, you're not picking difficult enough tasks.
Sometimes a good approach will fail anyway, and sometimes failure indicates the need for a new approach... but your mantras are catchier.