Failure is not a binary 1 or 0 thing. There are at least 256 levels. If your failure was down to 193 in the first decade of your career, you may be better off over three decades than soneone who was consistently at 240 in the first decade and later went down to 170 in the second decade, because you may have greater information exposure, it all depends on what happened.

Also...please define failure?