I understand where you're coming from.
After all, as the old saying goes, “success has many fathers; failure is always an orphan.”
But, let me tell you, even if you read through a lot of the less successful journeys on this forum, or even the incomplete projects, there's always a lesson to learn.
In many cases, the lesson is completely different from the one the thread-starter had in mind!
You have to understand that when it comes to achieving success, you can get lessons from two places.
You can figure out how things worked out, or you can let failure teach you a thing or two.
Here's a shocking secret: failure is the better teacher.
Why?
You have more skin in the game; you want to avoid failure because it hurts!
It also can harm your reputation.
A lot of people define themselves based on their setbacks and failures, and that's why there's a sense of emotional urgency when it comes to reading somebody’s experience based on their setbacks and mistakes.
Others are driven more by their dreams—they're proactive.
But let’s not kid ourselves; for every one person who is motivated by promise, opportunity, and possibility, there are ten people who will only lift a finger to change their situation when they feel that their chips are down and their backs are against the wall—this is called reactive thinking.
There's nothing necessarily bad with it, but if you are a reactive person, all the pep talk in the world and success stories are not going to help you change your material reality.
You know what will? The fear of failure as well as the fear of loss.
So, in my opinion, incomplete and “unsuccessful” journeys here are just as valuable—if not more so—than successful ones.