司马牛问君子。孔子说：“君子不忧不惧。”问：“不忧不惧，就能叫做君子吗？”孔子说：“问心无愧，何来忧惧？”

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.