When a rejection lands and it reads like a verdict, you will know where that reflex was installed and who installed it. Twenty years of do-not-fail produces an adult who hears one no as a sentence about themselves. Noticing the reflex is not the same as obeying it.
When somebody tells you they have never really failed at anything, you will know that is not a strength they have. It is a tolerance they never built, and their first real one will cost them more than yours costs you.
When you are inside the hard year and nobody can tell you what it is for, you will know that nobody can. Not your instructor, not your family, not me. The dots connect facing backward only, and the price of that is doing the year without the reassurance.
If you have a 99% chance of failing and a 1% chance of succeeding, then all you need to do is try 100 times. That 1 success offsets the 99 failures.
So stop counting them as losses and count them as height. Your failures are the mountain. Every rejection is another stone in it, the pile gets taller, and the summit is not somewhere else you still have to reach. It is the top of the one you built. Nobody stands on a mountain. You stand on yours. That is what success is built on: a mountain of your own failures.