Just because you learn more from failures doesn't mean that you will learn more in aggregate over time with more failures. If you fail too much, your brain will tell you that it's better to quit and spend your attention/time in another way.

Elon Musk recently said it well. He said something along the lines of always assuming you are wrong. The goal is to try to be less wrong all the time. Which is basically what good science is. And that guarantees long term improvement and success. So you need to fail a little to learn and get better. If you always succeeded, I think you'd never really know why you succeeded which is important knowledge and guarantees to a certain degree not making those mistakes again in the future.

I've written an article about this. https://blog.julienreszka.com/2019/09/growing-success-by-lea...

The subject is so sensitive that I often get banned from forums for saying what I know to be true.

I always tell people with cooking, it's not always knowing what to do, but knowing what not to do, and when things go wrong.

If you don't fuck it up, people will think your food is at least 'good'. Making it 'great' is the hard part.