You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
“There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.”
“I'm just a real person and I tell it like it is. I don't have a lot of secrets, which has been a fault of mine.”