If you’re worried about failure, then it’s very hard to let yourself be surprised. If you’re thinking you shouldn’t fail, then probably you imagine that there’s somewhere in particular you need to be, and you’re probably intent on taking a particular path to get to there. So if you find yourself somewhere surprising, you might feel the need to go backwards, to get back onto the right path. That means you’ll miss out on a lot of interesting and useful surprises.
