(@)tpr: 'Analyzing wins is fun, but not helpful, and people invent excuses for doing it: I do it with the right attitude.' ~ Analysing your wins to discover and admit that they are not the revolutionary masterpieces that they felt like when you played them might hurt at first, but is good for improvement, and people invent all sorts of incorrect excuses for not doing it: 'I would forget my errors, so I will rather keep on making them.'
'Analyzing losses is less fun, but helpful, and people invent excuses for not doing it: stupid blunder.' ~ Analysing losses means that you know you made errors, so it is not as hard to find them, but, 'easy' is not the same as, 'good': If we only did what is easy, then we would never have started chess.
People invent all sorts of incorrect excuses for only analysing losses: 'My errors will be easier to find, and my brain will be preserving the illusion of my perfect wins.'
You should play with bots for your Elo to go up.
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