Think about the things you've achieved in taiko. Playing that really tricky section, finally pushing it through that stamina-draining song, drilling a pattern faster than before, etc. They took time to accomplish, right? You had a goal and you had to work at getting there, whether it took five minutes or five years. Success comes after a period of time, gradually.
Failure, however, tends to be much more in-the-present. You can't play that passage, you're gassed before the song ends, your solo crashes, etc. These things tend to be short-lived even if they keep happening as you try and try again.
You can think of success as being a long-term process while failure is a short-term setback. Individual successes tend to have less impact unless you take the time to acknowledge what you've achieved and it's best to acknowledge it more than just once! Otherwise you're not accounting for all the time and effort spent into making those successes and they become somewhat diluted.
With this thinking, any one success is worth way more than several failures and this can help put things in perspective when it's needed the most!
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