Well, first, realize that you're not defined by your past successes or failures – despite what that insidious part of your brain might try to tell you.
Our self-imprisonment becomes even more insidious and damaging when the walls are, in fact, fake—when we are controlled by fake news, replicating at terrifying speed, often unwittingly through our own actions.
There are some orchids — and I always think orchids somehow seem like the most devious of the plant species in the world — and there are some orchids that just tap directly into the network and steal all their carbon.