You learned.

“If you decide you need $100,000 to be happy, $50,000 feels like a failure. If you decide $40,000 is enough to be happy, suddenly you’re a success. Too often, we forget that failure is just this arbitrary definition we make up in our heads. We decide, “This is what’s going to happen.” And when it doesn’t, we declare it a failure. Then we get pissed—completely forgetting we made the whole damn rulebook up on a whim. Repeat after me: “My failures are self-invented.” -Mark Manson

You didn’t fail. You learned.

The fact that you tried, that you stepped into the arena is the win. Everything else is gravy.

P.S. – This excellent post from Sahil Bloom