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.
Yes and there is another dimension also! Failure is a vector, you can fail on your career progression but succeed on health, happiness, family, meaning, doing right to others.
I can count exactly zero people ive met who have succeeded in all four categories. You choose where to fail, and how much to fail on a spectrum in order to succeed on other dimensions.
Also...please define failure?