It’s very possible, however, to just fail without ever succeeding, and that’s what the perfectionist worries about. The above sounds like an instance of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent.

That's just the push I needed to challenge Mike Tyson to a fight.

In my more lugubrious moments I prefer Samuel Beckett's "Fail again, fail better".

Except if the fall kills you. Survivorship bias.