I heard from a senior leader at Amazon that "Today, I am choosing how I fail". This has echoed in my head for many years.

At any moment, you are failing at thousands of things that you may not even know about, and that is the gist of what I took away from it. The thing is that you have to be OK when you intentionally choose to not invest in something as regret is ultimately a poison.

The other thing is this: you are not obligated to bring people with you and you have a choice of free association.