Ok, not football at all, but it matters, eventually.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

An apt Latvian saying - to have one eye on the past is to be blind in one eye, to ignore the past is to be blind in both eyes.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

I to add to the mix - many successful people or businesses failed many times before learning the lessons from that to be successful. Modern society seems to struggle to recognise that.

Similarly, taking risks and being first is often a key metric too.

Politics is often about stupid points scoring and highlighting failures to damn opponents with no recognition that this might impart knowledge and skills to learn from the success and turn it into failure.