The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.
Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.
Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.