You’ve been lied to. What you think is "failure" is not failure at all.
If you are moving, you have not failed. No matter what direction you’re heading.
In the words of Thomas Edison, “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
This so-called failure is a discovery and it's not bad, it’s very good! The only failure is when you give up. That is how to fail.