Say you’re a pro fighter and, against all odds, it’s going incredibly well for you. You win your first fight. Then another and another. Every time they announce your professional record you get to hear those magical words — “…and 0” — at the end of the sentence.
You have yet to taste defeat and who knows if you ever will? The mounting evidence is beginning to suggest that maybe you cannot be beaten. You could be the next Khabib Nurmagomedov. Losing is, to you, purely a hypothetical.
Then … oops. It happens. You lose your first fight.