I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins frames adversity as preparatory rather than purely negative: failures and frustrations are recast as the groundwork for later insight and improved well-being. The quote reflects a hallmark of self-help and motivational rhetoric—retrospective meaning-making—where past setbacks become evidence of growth rather than proof of inadequacy. It also implies an active process of learning (“understandings”) that converts experience into a “new level of living,” suggesting that transformation depends less on avoiding failure than on extracting lessons from it. In this view, resilience is not just endurance but interpretation: changing the story one tells about the past to support present agency and future progress.