The score doesn't transfer but your habits do

"When you lose a game, the score doesn’t transfer to the next contest but your habits certainly will.

Circumstances are temporary. Sometimes you’re winning, sometimes you’re losing. Hot, cold. Lucky, unlucky. But your habits travel with you. This is why you want to execute the same way whether the score is 10-0 or 0-10. Not because the score doesn’t matter, but because the score isn’t what you’re actually building.

It’s not about winning or losing any given round. It’s about doing things the right way. If you have a chance to practice your craft, you want to do it as well as you can (even if you end up losing that day). Your previous reps can save you or betray you. The habits always translate to the next round."

– James Clear

Man, spot on when it comes to why indie hackers succeed with one product but not another, even though it’s the same person, same habits, same skills, same tech stack.

Because the market is different, the circumstances are different, the game’s different.

Same habits, executed on a game where the habits are not suited for, means defeat.
Same habits, executed on a game where the habits have leverage, means victory.

So, it’s nothing personal.
It’s not a moral failing on your part.

The scores from failed products do not transfer to the next. It only transfers if you let it.

Only habits transfer. And those, we must watch closely.

Habits > scores